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IDS Research Report 88: The Gendered Price of Precarity: Voicing and Challenging Workplace Sexual Harassment

There is a strong belief that employment is a crucial avenue for the empowerment of young women, through income, greater autonomy, and bargaining power within the family. However, experiences of workplace sexual harassment undermine these potential gains. This qualitative study among agro-processing factory workers and domestic workers in Uganda and Bangladesh demonstrates that sexual harassment […]

Policy Brief – Countering Sexual Harassment among Domestic Workers in Uganda

Written by Victoria Flavia Namuggala (Makerere University) & Prosperous Nankindu (Kyambogo University) Executive statement This policy brief focuses on the plight of young women working as live-in domestic workers in Kampala’s informal settlements. We discuss the nature of sexual harassment they endure, factors explaining their vulnerability to sexual harassment, factors influencing their voice and agency, […]

Review Workshop of the Education Sector Toolkit on Gender Equality

The School of Women and Gender Studies in partnership with the University Forum on Governance (UNIFOG) established the Gender Equality Project (GEP) whose sole purpose is to deepen gender equality legislation in Uganda, through bringing gender equality principles and practices to the lowest level gender policy maker or actor. With funding from the Democratic Governance […]