Gender Studies

Gender is defined as the socially constructed roles and behaviors that a society typically associates with males and females. An example of gender is referring to someone who wears a dress as a female. According to the World Health Organization, gender refers to the socially defined roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society … Read more

Domination of women has for centuries been the norm all over the world. Women have for long been considered and treated as second fiddle to men in aspects of social, political, economic, human rights and development. Women were never and have never been comfortable with this kind of arrangement but given a highly patriarchal society … Read more

The modern understanding of knowledge evolution in the world has no doubt been dominated by what Oyeronke Oyewumi describes as ‘the Euro-American cultural hegemony’. In her book; “Conceptualizing gender: the Eurocentric foundations of feminist concepts and the challenge of African epistemologies,” Oyewumi asserts that knowledge proliferation all over the world has therefore taken the shape … Read more