 The purpose of this document is to present data on a selection of gender characteristics and issues. It summarises information relating to the position of women from the analytical and strategic framework of autonomy, its principal element being physical, economic, political and socio-cultural. In this exercise, we have learned that women in Namibia fight for survival and do not wait for men to feed them. We have also learned that people are born female and male, but learn girl-roles and boy-roles as they grow into women and men. They are taught appropriate behaviour and attitudes, role activities and how they should relate to each other. This learned behaviour is what makes up their identity and determines their roles. | 