Simon Griffee

What: Gender

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• Gender and Land Rights

  I have been asked to write about gender and land rights. Humans need space to live and grow food and yet half of them are not given equal access to and ownership of land. This half are women. But why is the word ‘gender’ being used to describe them? I myself as well as most people I talk to — social scientists excluded — think the word ‘gender’ means ‘sex’ in the biological sense. …continue