What is it about?
Analysing different phases of a gender training in Mali (Western Africa), we show how intercultural and contextual challenges influence the way gender training is received by the learners and how they interpret and mobilise the taught concepts. Even collaboration with local trainers is not a guarantee for efficiently adapting the relevant concepts to the context of the learners. The idea that women are being appreciated above all as mothers and carers stayed central for the learners. And equality was not necessarily seen as a key value in the gender debate.
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Why is it important?
That gender training must be adapted culturally and to each context is obvious, but this experience underlines the complexity of such a process.
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With this article, I tried to make sens out of a complexe experience I participated in. It made me realise that I do not have control over the way learners understand and use what we try to transmit. I hope it can raise awareness for others...
Elisabeth Hofmann
Universite Bordeaux Montaigne
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This page is a summary of: When Reception of Gender Training Meets Intercultural Challenges, December 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004748880_003.
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