Blog # 4

The gender roles in Uganda are divided up in the labor category. They sometimes can change through out the economy or how the crops are doing. 90% of rural women work in the agriculture area. They take care of the sowing and harvesting and seed selection. The Men do more of the heavy work with using the oxen and the farming machinery. The work that is split up is the weeding and baging up of the crops. The men make most of the decisons at the market, and it is thought that in the rural areas women do most of the work. This is different from how the gender roles are here. We do not really have gender roles and for the most part women and men are treated equally. It may be different in the rural areas but the farming is probably split up from the men and the women. But with certian circumstances the roles of men are somewhat the same as in Uganda because of how men are bulit and how strong they are.

FAO. 2000. IFAD’s Gender Strengthening Programme for East and Southern Africa – Uganda Field Diagnostic Study (Draft). Rome. [http://www.ifad.org/gender/learning/role/labour/54.htm]