Interview with Kumvana Mlumbe Mtukule, WOLREC
Channel: IIED
Date: 2022-08-25

Kumvana Mlumbe Mtukule, legal manager at Women's Legal Resources Centre (WOLREC), shares the findings of a gender audit WOLREC conducted to better understand the gendered stereotypes that impact gender mainstreaming processes.

She said: "The stereotypes that are mainly in smallholder tea farming is around the way women are perceived. They are perceived as not able to achieve most things that men can achieve. 

"So, because of that, and because of the society – because of the way they've been socialised, the women as well – they believe that kind stereotypes, that they cannot achieve as much as men achieve. 

"And the men as well, because of the way they were socialised in that community, they believe that those stereotypes are real. So the way they conduct themselves, like the way they go about their business, they go about making those stereotypes reality for both men and women."

More information: https://www.iied.org/legal-empowerment-gender-lens-how-women-tea-farmers-malawi-are-claiming-their-rights

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