Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development, and building good governance.
Kofi Annan
Uganda is largely a patriarchal society. Men and boys are superior to girls and women and yet they are entitled to equal rights. There is widespread acceptability of discrimination against gender and most communities including the survivors see nothing wrong with it.
Issues of gender inequality- Land/property inheritance, education most times boys are enrolled first than girls, girls do more household chores like washing dishes, clothes, babysitting, cooking, and cleaning, girls are pushed to marriage early, and lack of control of the outcomes of their labor, insubordination of women and girls resulting into gender-based violence.
