International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.1, 2024

 

Gender Equality Processes and Implications in Sub-Saharan Africa

(Abstract)

 

Li Jie

 

The process of modernization has posed new challenges and propositions to the “state-market-family-gender” relationship around the world, and African countries in sub-Saharan Africa are facing a more urgent “production-reproduction” crisis due to their complex political, economic and social backgrounds. The attempts and explorations of African countries on the path to gender equality have revealed to us that women empowerment is a multidimensional and complex issue. The opening up of the public sphere has not solved the family pressures faced by women, and the one-dimensional public-interest childcare system has not really changed women’s socioeconomic status. Gender equality, without a male perspective, may create new dilemmas for male and intimate relationship crises. The path of gender equality and women’s liberation in developing countries needs to be promoted and developed with mutual reference and inspiration.