Gender Equality and Postconflict Reconstruction: What Do We Need to Know in Order to Make Gender Mainstreaming Work?

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Acknowledgments

We thank three anonymous reviewers and Louise Olsson for their invaluable contribution to the research.

Notes

¹Gender is defined as the environmental, cultural, polar yet complimentary construction of roles and behaviours associated with the male and female sexes. Hence, when outlining the attributes, roles, and responsibilities of “man” one also infers the complimentary and polar opposite of those characteristics associated with the “woman.” Gender entails the cultural conceptualization of sexual identity and depends on the human interaction between sexes and with respects to the natural environment. As such, gender roles are not fixed or given, but an evolving set of ascribed sexual characteristics.

²The data on GDP per capita are based on the IMF (2011). Variation in absolute GDP per capita figures across different source (for example IMF, Human Development Index) does not alter the relative differences between the economies of Mozambique and Angola.