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Financing the gender imperative for procurement in the City Of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

- Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.K.

  • Authors: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.K.
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Economic equity , Gender , Johannesburg
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289612 , uj:31425 , Citation: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.K. 2018. Financing the gender imperative for procurement in the City Of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
  • Description: Abstract: An important role that municipalities can play in procurement is for the local sphere to offer opportunities to realise economic equity for enterprises owned by women and other previously disadvantaged groups. Municipal procurement can be used to address equity concerns by opening up economic prospects for particular categories of people. Gender mainstreaming may be achieved by the conspicuous inclusion of enterprises that are owned and operated by women, which often operate on the periphery of procurement. Integrating gender into municipal procurement enables women-owned businesses to participate, benefit, and in turn enhance gendered participation in Johannesburg’s local economic development (LED). This article expands the conclusions from an earlier study that was concerned with e-procurement. The article uses a qualitative analytic approach to assess how gendered procurement for the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (CJMM) has not been conducted to benefit womenowned businesses. These are compared against the municipality’s procurement policies, procedures, and reports to highlight the gender gap in municipal procurement. The article deduces that a gender gap persists in the CJMM’s municipal procurement processes, which excludes women-headed businesses from benefiting from larger contracts. The article offers suggestions for improvement. The article recommends that future research is needed that will use gender-disaggregated data to analyse municipal sector procurement for LED. The article concludes with key recommendations to enhance gender equity in municipal procurement.
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Perception on the effects of substance abuse in a comprehensive university: a case of gender

- Agumba, Justus N., Musonda, Innocent

  • Authors: Agumba, Justus N. , Musonda, Innocent
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Effects , Substance abuse , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/93897 , uj:20405 , Citation: Agumba, J.N. & Musonda, I. 2016. Perception on the effects of substance abuse in a comprehensive university: a case of gender.
  • Description: Abstract: Substance abuse has been identified to interfere with the students’ physical, cognitive and affective development. The main aim of this study was to determine the perception of gender on the effects of substance abuse on their physical, cognitive and affective development. Methodology: The research philosophy adopted was positivism and the approach was deductive. A self-administered questionnaire containing items developed from literature review was administered to 199 built environment and civil engineering students at a South African university. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. Cronbach alpha was used to achieve the reliability for internal consistency of the measured constructs i.e. physical, cognitive and affective development. Item correlation identified the correlation of the measures of physical, cognitive and affective development. T-test was further conducted to test gender perception on the effects of substance abuse on the physical, cognitive and affective development. Findings: The measures of physical, cognitive and affective development had a strong relationship and were reliable measures. Furthermore, the results suggest that there was no statistical significant difference on the perception of the effect of substance abuse on cognitive development as informed by male and female students. However, there was a significant difference on their perception on substance abuse on physical and affective development. Limitation(s): The respondents were from one comprehensive university, therefore the findings cannot be generalized for all the tertiary institutions in South Africa...
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Challenging gender equality in South African transformation policies ‒ a case of the white paper : a programme for the transformation of higher education

- Akala, B.M.

  • Authors: Akala, B.M.
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Gender , Policy , Higher education
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289748 , uj:31443 , Citation: Akala, B.M. 2018. Challenging gender equality in South African transformation policies ‒ a case of the white paper : a programme for the transformation of higher education. South African Journal of Higher Education. Volume 32 | Number 3 | 2018 | pages 226‒248. http://dx.doi.org/10.20853/32-3-1521 , ISSN: 1753-5913
  • Description: Abstract: Using a post-structural lens, I make arguments against homogenising people’s conditions and circumstances. In particular, I acknowledge that the post-1994 reform agenda intended to streamline the previously fragmented and segregated higher education landscape under the apartheid regime. Black women, who are the main target of this article suffered triple marginalisation ‒ race, social class and sexism. The aim of the article is to show the tensions that exist within the White Paper: A Programme for the Transformation of Higher Education (DoE 1997). The said tensions have stifled the attainment of gender equity and equality; effectively widening the gender fissures in post-1994 South African higher education. I argue that we should not take for granted phrases such as “equal opportunities” and “equal access” in policies. Instead, we should seek their meaning and achievement inter alia in earnest for the targeted group. Therefore, I postulate that gender and gendering is complex and very fragmented. For this reason, formulating transformation interventions on the premise of equality for all does not necessarily guarantee gender equality or gender equity. With this in mind, a “one-size fits all” approach to redressing gender equality is implausible and does not suffice in addressing salient gender injustices. I propose a multifaceted approach, which encompasses a realistic and holistic outlook on the divergent needs of black women in particular and women in general as a possible solution to the current challenges.
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Workplace spirituality for improved productivity : a gendered perspective

- Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

  • Authors: Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Gender , Spirituality , Workplace spirituality
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/250788 , uj:26142 , Citation: Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. 2017. Workplace spirituality for improved productivity : a gendered perspective.
  • Description: Abstract: There are a very few studies available to gain insight into the impact of yoga and alternative therapies1 on stress management, conflict resolution and work productivity. In previous studies the focus fell on the gendered perspective, exploring the impact of spiritual modalities on the physical and mental wellness of male and female employees. Spiritual practices such as yoga and other alternative therapies have been found to be significant to enhance work productivity, hence be part of organisational wellness programmes. However, this aspect is not fully implemented due to various reasons including a lack of spiritual understanding, religious preferences and organisational cultures. The aim of this article is to expand upon and enhance this analysis by aligning spiritual practices to workplace productivity. Books, journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings dealing with spirituality at the workplace were reviewed. Based on the literature available, two hypotheses are explored, namely (a) that workplace spirituality enhances employee wellness and has a positive impact on improved productivity; and (b) that workplace spirituality impacts differently on male and female employees (gendered perspective) and leads to improved productivity. The article formulates a model called Workplace Spirituality for Gender-based Productivity (WSG-bP) for consideration under the umbrella of existing Employee Work Wellness programmes.
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Assessing gender equality in the South African sports sector

- Vyas-Doorgapersad, S., Surujlal, J.

  • Authors: Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. , Surujlal, J.
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Gender , Gender equality , Sports management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289620 , uj:31426 , Citation: Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. & Surujlal, J. 2018. Assessing gender equality in the South African sports sector. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITY STUDIES Vol 10, No 1, 2018. , ISSN: 1309-8063 (Online)
  • Description: Abstract: Sport has generally been a male-dominated domain which appears to discriminate against women by preventing their advancement to high-level positions in sports organisations. The article conceptually utilises the Gender and Development approach as a theoretical framework. The rationale behind this approach is that in a patriarchal society, there are stereotyped mentality, social practices, and cultural traditions confining women to household tasks only; role-conflict between men and women; and gender challenges in terms of work-family-balanced tasks that restrict women from advancing their careers outside their delegated and expected home-based tasks. This approach therefore aims to empower, incorporate, integrate, and mainstream gender in the sport sector. The article contextually utilises a comprehensive literature survey, document analysis, and a desktop review of the Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa to identify gender gaps. Through document analysis, the gender gaps will be discussed in the South African sports sector at strategic and policy levels that suppress women from holding decision-making and strategic positions. Authors believe that women alone are not responsible for the lack of gender-based representation in sports management. Male counterparts hold equal responsibility to encourage, promote,...
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Gender equality for achieving Sustainable Development Goal One (no Poverty) in South African municipalities

- Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

  • Authors: Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Gender , Gender equality , Poverty
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/296210 , uj:32269 , Citation: Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. 2019. Gender equality for achieving Sustainable Development Goal One (no Poverty) in South African municipalities.
  • Description: Abstract: Sustainable Development Goal One demands the reduction of poverty, hence holds significance in the South African context where a high unemployment rate still prevails, hampering socio-economic development of the country as a whole. In addition, poverty is linked to gender inequality with female counterparts occupying fewer jobs in the South African labour market than men. This situation is even more dire at grassroots levels, where a lack of education and civic awareness, inadequate gender-based poverty alleviation policies, and inappropriate gender-based participation in pro-poor growth strategies, contribute towards the weakening of women’s empowerment. This article hypothesises that gender equality in poverty reduction strategies could have a positive impact in the realisation of Sustainable Development Goal One. In order to explore the gender equality measures in poverty reduction initiatives, the article utilizes a qualitative research approach with an exploratory design...
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Gender based e-procurement within the city of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality

- Kithatu-Kiwekete, A., Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

  • Authors: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A. , Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Capacity building , E-procurement , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/227222 , uj:22991 , Citation: Kithatu-Kiwekete, A. & Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. 2017. Gender based e-procurement within the city of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality.
  • Description: Abstract: Municipalities in South Africa are expected to utilise their purchasing processes to promote gender equality. A key external goal of municipal procurement is to redress inequalities through economic opportunities and economic equity to the benefit of both men and women. Currently, most municipalities are transforming their services through electronic mode, resulting in the use of e-procurement processes which link business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and business-togovernment via information and communication technologies. Using a Gender and Development (GAD) Approach, this article aims to assess the level of gender inclusivity in the municipal e-procurement processes in the City of Johannesburg as a case study. Among the questions raised in the article are whether gender mainstreaming is considered in the municipal procurement processes; and if there are any initiatives in place to capacitate men and women to ensure their participation in the e-procurement processes. The review of literature and official documents forms part of the desktop conceptual and theoretical analysis. Utilising qualitative, descriptive and analytical research approaches, the article explores the need for gender mainstreaming in the municipal e-procurement value chain processes such as e-informing, e-tendering and vendor management. The article then offers policy implications and suggestions for improvement.
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Perception on the effects of substance abuse in a comprehensive university: a case of gender

- Agumba, Justus N., Musonda, Innocent

Gender and ICT in east and West Africa for sustainable development goals : a comparative study

- Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha, Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.

  • Authors: Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha , Kithatu-Kiwekete, A.
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Africa , Gender , Gender equality
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/227212 , uj:22990 , Citation: Vyas-Doorgapersad, S & Kithatu-Kiwekete, A. 2017. Gender and ICT in east and West Africa for sustainable development goals : a comparative study.
  • Description: Abstract: In 2015, the global community, via the United Nations, adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to provide strategic direction towards the elimination of global poverty, safeguarding the environment and ensuring improved levels of wellbeing for all. The transition from the previous international goals offers the opportunity to emphasize and engage with gendered concerns, that is, the nexus should propel the agenda for gender. Specific questions are raised to determine whether gender and information and communication technologies (ICT) work towards the SDG. How can gender and ICT contribute to the SDG narrative, particularly in East and West Africa? These issues are analysed through a desktop review, using case studies, country reports, national, regional and continental policies. The findings reveal that inroads have been made to promote gender equality in ICT but these must be scaled up under the new dispensation of SDG. With this in mind, policy recommendations for improvement are offered.
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Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to climate change

- Azong, Matilda, Kelso, Clare J., Naidoo, Kammila

  • Authors: Azong, Matilda , Kelso, Clare J. , Naidoo, Kammila
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Vulnerability , Cameroon , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/276054 , uj:29522 , Citation: Azong, M., Kelso, C.J. & Naidoo, K. 2018. Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to climate change. In African Sociological Review, 22 (1): 31‐53.
  • Description: Abstract: The experience of climate change is filtered through ones existing cultural, social and economic vulnerabilities. The rural poor in natural resource dependent communities in various African countries are likely to be negatively affected by climate change. In many cultures female farmers are considerably worse off than their male counterparts. This study makes use of a life history methodology in order to examine the particular nature of the vulnerability experienced by rural women in Oku in the Bamenda Highlands region of Cameroon. Gender is linked to vulnerability through a number of factors. These include access to and control over land, division of labour, marriage relationships, access to education and responsibility for dependents. Participants’ life histories show how vulnerability in the region develops over time and is both complex and non‐linear. Nevertheless, the participants expressed how they used their agency, both individual and collective, in coping with vulnerability. They narrate different adaptation strategies employed including livelihood diversification, and changing farming practices. Understanding the role of gender in shaping women’s vulnerability is useful in informing the design and implementation of adaptation policies. This article makes an empirical contribution to the discussions on the need to engender climate change research, policy and actions.
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Gender socio-economic and demographic determinants predictors of mathematics success

- Agumba, Justus N.

  • Authors: Agumba, Justus N.
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: Determinants , Gender , Engineering , Mathematics
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/17886 , uj:15934 , Citation: Agumba, J.N. 2015. Gender socio-economic and demographic determinants predictors of mathematics success. Strouhal, J. & Sandhu, P.S. (Eds.) 2015 International Conference on Environment, Agricultural & Civil Engineering (ICEACE-15), Sept. 24-25, 2015 Penang, Malaysia. pp.99-104. ISBN: 9789384422394.
  • Description: Abstract: he socio-economic and demographic factors have been indicated to predict mathematics success. However, there is paucity of research to verify if these factors differ in predicating mathematics success based on gender (male and female). Hence, this paper reports on a study of gender socio-economic and demographic factors as predictors of mathematics success for civil and built environment students at a comprehensive university in South Africa. Data was obtained through, questionnaire survey from 199 students who were purposive sampled. However, two questionnaires were not valid. The questionnaire was developed from exiting literature. The data was analysed using Statistical Package fo! r the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. The statistical analyses computed were both descriptive and inferential. Inferential statistics were used to determine gender socio-economic and demographic variables influencing mathematics success. This was computed using binary logistic regression, splitting gender into male and female. The result established that when male and female socio-economic and demographic variables were tested they were poor predictors of mathematics success. Hence all the variables were insignificant, as the p-values were less than 0.05. However, the descriptive statistics on the socio-economic and demographic factors indicated that male students outperformed the female students in mathematics at high school and at the university. In terms of weekly income majority of the students earned less than R200, with 54% male and 55% for female. It is interesting to note that female students’ parents’ highest education were far better than male students, as 38% of ! female students indicated their parents highest education level was university degree compared to 30% of male students. However, the arithmetic difference is not too wide. Furthermore, majority of female students i.e. 74% compared to 61% male students pursued the building course, whereas male students were the majority in civil engineering technology compared to their female counterparts. This study informs university policy makers that where male and female students are accommodated, their age, passing high school mathematics, amount of weekly allowance, entry level to the university and type of education sponsors does not predict passing mathematics at university. However, further research is advocated as these variables are not exhaustive
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Thematic paper : the gendered character of social care in the non-profit sector in South Africa

- Patel, Leila

Measurement invariance across gender and ethnicity on the emotional quotient inventory 2.0

- Van Zyl, Casper J.J.

Gender mainstreaming in local economic development processes : a South African perspective

- Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

  • Authors: Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Gender , Gender equality , Gender mainstreaming
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/250830 , uj:26147 , Citation: Vyas-Doorgapersad, S. 2017. Gender mainstreaming in local economic development processes : a South African perspective.
  • Description: Abstract: The United Nations Millennium Development Goal [MDG] (Goal 1; Poverty reduction) in South Africa had not achieved all of its set targets. There are still economic disparities complemented by a wide ranging pollution-tounemployment ratio creating gender-differentiation in poverty outcomes. MDG Goal 3 (Gender equality and women empowerment) also existed in isolation and was not explicitly aligned with other goals. The post-MDG review led to the establishment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Goal 1: poverty elimination and Goal 6: gender equality). In order to eradicate poverty and advance economic empowerment of households, the Local Economic Development (LED) programme has since been implemented in South African municipalities. The aim of the article is to explore the missing element of gender in development policies and goals. The purpose therefore is to align gender to local economic development in municipalities. A qualitative research design was planned to gather relevant information. A review of LED documents explores the gender exclusion in the LED processes. Gender differences, inequality, unequal access to resources, and unequal employment opportunities may lead to economic collapse. The article offers recommendations for improvement.
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The cultural politics of adaptation : fools and the politics of gender

- Mngadi, Sikhumbuzo

  • Authors: Mngadi, Sikhumbuzo
  • Date: 2015-04-01
  • Subjects: Gender , Masculinity , Spectatorship
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5594 , ISSN 1754923x , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14295
  • Description: The shifts in the priorities of literary and cultural theory and criticism were already underway in the South African academy by the end of the 1980s, with the gathering momentum of the mass political movement reaching its apotheosis with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990. Whereas creative literary and cultural expression has often lagged behind advances in theory, there was nevertheless a steady acknowledgement of the necessity for a corresponding shift in the discursive character of the creative arts, even if the material conditions on the ground remained largely unchanged. Ramadan Suleman’s film Fools, which appeared in 1997 as an adaptation of Njabulo Ndebele’s 1983 novella by the same title, entered the fray with its argument for a new or, as it were, broader consciousness of the deeper, more complex legacy of ‘sexual violence’. This legacy included the weak ‘place of women in the everyday life of the township’ (Suleman 1995: 1), and indeed in the very idea of ‘the everyday’ that some in literary and cultural circles sought to inscribe. This article provides an assessment of the nature and extent of the film’s intervention in the context of the systematic breakdown of the old certainties of race, identity and nation post-apartheid, together with the literary-critical cultures and apparatuses that presided over their coherences and raptures. I take as my starting point Robert Stam and Louise Spence’s (1983: 3) assertion that ‘[a]though […] those questions bearing on the cinematic industry, its processes of production, distribution and exhibition’ – in short, questions bearing on ‘the contextual’ – are of ‘crucial importance’, they need to be tempered with those bearing on the ‘textual and intertextual’ (emphasis in original). Fools is a film that enters the textual and contextual terrain of Ndebele’s novella, but in doing so contests its textuality by shifting its narrative ground and voice.
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Is the Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) of University Students dependant on gender?

- Dhliwayo, Shepherd

Gender and age differences in conflict management within small businesses.

- Havenga, W.

  • Authors: Havenga, W.
  • Date: 2008
  • Subjects: Conflict handling styles , Interpersonal conflict , Age , Gender , Small business , Rahim organisational inventory , ROC-II instrument
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:5639 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2878
  • Description: The objective of this exploratory study was to establish, through the application of the Rahim Organisational Inventory (ROC II) instrument, how the gender and age status of owners/managers of small businesses relate to the application of different conflict-handling styles. The sample of 68 participants was taken using a convenience sampling technique to ensure representation from the strata of the 102 small businesses. Analysis of variances was used to determine if differences exist in conflict-handling styles within the gender and age status groups. The results of the statistical analysis done revealed that slight to significant variances were found, which are discussed accordingly.
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Entangled Patriarchies : sex, gender and relationality in the forging of Natal

- Sheik, Nafisa Essop

  • Authors: Sheik, Nafisa Essop
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Natal , Historiography , Gender
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/216792 , uj:21554 , Citation: Sheik, N.S. 2016. Entangled Patriarchies : sex, gender and relationality in the forging of Natal.
  • Description: Abstract: The arguments presented here are offered in critical appraisal of Guy’s contribution to the scholarship of colonial Natal and are informed by two primary concerns: the first is a politics of producing desegregated historiography, and the second is the need for local historical studies to relate to areas of wider scholarly concern, in this instance relating Shepstonian politics to liberalism and the nineteenth-century British Empire. Theophilus Shepstone and the Forging of Natal is Jeff Guy’s magnum opus and a meticulously researched and richly detailed book. Guy’s finely considered archival narrative builds a vision of a colony forged out of the local contingencies of Native administration centred around Shepstone’s mediations of power. In this telling, it is out of the struggles between the powerful Shepstone; a small, fractious settler elite – his friends and enemies; and an intricate network of chiefly authorities that Natal is made.1 It is clear from this tome, as it is in his considerable body of earlier work, that Guy was not one to countenance theoretical generalizations about Shepstone’s Natal. It is the contention of this essay that Guy’s writing of this history of the colony is, at best, a history in part, and that connections and generalizations beyond these groups and beyond the colony are political and scholarly imperatives. In addressing this, I will draw on instances of my own research on race, sex, marriage and state-making to demonstrate the necessity of, and the possibilities for, a broader, more complex telling of the history of colonial Natal.
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The lived experiences of postgraduate female students at the University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

- Alabi, Oluwatobi Joseph, Seedat-Khan, Mariam, Abdullahi, Ali Arazeem

The implementation of gender equality within the South African Public Service (1994–2019)

- Bangani, Ayola, Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha

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