A Gender Analysis Of The Triple Burden Of Production, Reproduction And Community Service In The Rehoboth Constituency

ABSTRACT There has been no research on gender roles and the triple burden of women in the Rehoboth area. Yet women in Rehoboth as many elsewhere are faced with socially ascribed roles in production, reproduction and community. This research seeks to explore and understand the gender division of labour and the gender relations within this community. As a diverse country, Namibia has different cultures, we witness that women and men are taught their gender roles through the use of specific cultural practices for instance female initiation, male initiation, genital mutilation and many others whi…