{"id":6534,"date":"2015-08-18T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2015-08-28T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:24:38","slug":"gender-rhodes-must-fall-debate-by-simamkele-dlakavu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/gender-rhodes-must-fall-debate-by-simamkele-dlakavu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender &#038; Rhodes Must Fall Debate by Simamkele Dlakavu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cintro\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><em>This article was originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalist.org.za\/spotlight\/opinion-gender-rhodes-must-fall-debate\">The Journalist<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">South Africa has been forced to look at ways to \u2018decolonialise\u2019 and transform its white dominated academic spaces and curricula. Nationwide student activism that was led by the #RhodesMustFall movement, reverberated around the world. The importance of feminism and intersectionality have been emphasised by all these student movements. But we have not had sufficient vigour and spirit in trying to create an academic space where gender is mainstreamed. We cannot continue reproducing systems and students who are not gender conscious and who think the issue of gender is only an issue for the \u201cgender studies department\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Academia has been criticised for the ways in which it has ignored, \u201cpseudo included or alienated\u201d issues of gender in its curriculum. This has been evident in my experiences and interactions as a student and young professional. My personal experience has made me even more aware of the importance of having a gender conscious curriculum at university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">There are three events that stand out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Firstly, I attended the budget speech for the Department of Women in the Presidency in parliament last year. In the discussion after the presentation, one of the department representatives mentioned how parliament was not built with women in mind. It was built for men by men. She mentioned how the space, and the architecture was not gender sensitive. One of the examples that she highlighted was how slippery the floors were. They are made out of marble and that it\u2019s difficult for women who wear heels to walk with ease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Obviously, while walking in parliament, I too was conscious of my steps because indeed the floors were slippery. Before this I had not paid much attention to the notion of space and gender. I had thought about spaces being disability friendly, the need for it to have ramps, but I had never thought about spaces and architecture being female friendly. I wondered if architecture students and those studying the built environment were taught the notion of space in relation to gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The second moment that stands out\u2026 I was recently told a story of a female academic in the United States of America, who only referenced female thinkers in her classes and course packs. After some time, the students complained. They felt that they were learning only a \u201cfeminist perspective\u201d. She laughed in amazement and said that last semester, she taught only male thinkers and no one even noticed or complained. This story speaks to the way in which we have universalised and normalised male thinkers\/academics as the authority of thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"feminist-economics\">Feminist Economics<\/h3>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Lastly, in my undergraduate years I remember my first encounter with the woman who had mesmerised me with her fierceness and political analysis on television while growing up. During her talk, she introduced herself as a Feminist Economist. Feminist Economics is a field that challenges that male and patriarchal gaze of how economics is studied and applied. It seeks to make women visible in studies where gender and race have been excluded in analyses. I realised that some of the issues that Feminists were centering were different to what students were learning at Wits economics (I had a brief stint there). It also differed from the economics I was learning in my Development Studies and International Political Economy classes. Gender issues would be mentioned, but as it is in our patriarchal society, it was always optional, additional and \u201ca side issue\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Much research has been conducted to try and remove the gender bias in our university curriculums. UNESCO commissioned a paper called: \u201c<em>From Gender Studies to Gender IN Studies: Case Studies on Gender-Inclusive Curriculum in Higher Education<\/em>\u201d. In this study they argue that we have moved past the question of the importance of a gender conscious curriculum, its importance shouldn\u2019t even be up for question, it is evident. They present successful case studies of universities where gender has been mainstreamed like the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">In their paper, they argue\u2026 \u201cWhat does a \u2018gender-inclusive curriculum\u2019 openly mean? Do students in History also learn about \u2018her story\u2019? Do students in Sociology learn about \u2018the gender dimension\u2019 of the social life? Is gender part of the Engineering curricula?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Some critics would argue that we need to be cautious of our endeavour to en-gender the curriculum. We could fall into the trap of being oversensitive. This criticism sounds so familiar. It is the same argument that has been highlighted when we point to the need to decolonialise and Africanise our academy. This criticism seeks to silence us and continue with the status quo. The male view of our society continues to be at the centre in our politics, in our media \u2014 with all male panelists in television talk shows like Judge for Yourself. A pattern that I have noticed. Recently they had an all male panel once more. In the show they \u201cdiscussed and debated whether the church should be left to its own devices in deciding matters like whether a gay person or a married lesbian woman can be a pastor or bishop or occupy some other leadership position\u2026.\u201d When I highlighted the matter, it was ignored. This pattern in all aspects of our society cannot be accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The popular media influences thinking and attitudes and should honour its responsibility to all sectors of the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Tertiary institutions are the spaces that direct our debates and inform new ways of thinking. A gender sensitive curriculum should be mainstreamed and compulsory. We need to challenge and train our academics who are <em>still<\/em> mostly white males in South Africa. Feminists fought for decades to make gender studies an academic discipline in our institutions of higher learning. I hope that in South Africa, it won\u2019t take that long for gender to be mainstreamed in our academic institutions, the gender bias chains must be broken!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row discussion\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6562  alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3075-e1439833844145-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"Simamkele Dlakavu\" width=\"172\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3075-e1439833844145-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3075-e1439833844145-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3075-e1439833844145.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><em>Simamkele Dlakavu is a story-teller and social activist who works as a human rights television producer on one of South Africa\u2019s most popular current affairs shows, The Big Debate, and for international broadcasters like the BBC. Simamkele has been a youth activist since the age of 15 and recently co-founded a social enterprise called Sakha Ingomso\u00a0Lethu, which means &#8220;we are building our tomorrow&#8221;. Through her work, Simamkele has represented young people in various youth summits around the African continent and the world. In 2013, she was recognized by the Moremi Initiative as one of 28 of &#8220;Africa\u2019s Most Outstanding Emerging Women Leaders.\u201d Simamkele was a participant in AWDF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/22-african-women-writers-selected-for-awdf-2015-writers-workshop\/\">2015 Writing for Social Change Workshop<\/a> in Kampala, Uganda.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"row discussion\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row discussion\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row discussion\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row discussion\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row discussion\"><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1020],"tags":[37,1098,1095,1097,657,479,1099,1096,1094,704,468],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-blog-group","tag-37","tag-academia","tag-dlakavu","tag-fall","tag-feminism","tag-gender-2","tag-must","tag-rhodes","tag-simamkele","tag-south-africa-2","tag-women-writers-workshop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gender &amp; 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