Janet Seed’s scientific contributions

This section complements the previous section, contrasting facts and statistics about women with the ‘Myths’ explored in Activity 35, and providing material from the participants’ own research to reinforce what has been learned about the roles and needs of women. It is important that participants in a longer gender-training workshop come well-prepared with facts about the lives of women and men in the countries or regions in which they work; or in relation to a specific theme, such as conflict, or the environment, if the training is theme-based. This will entail careful and detailed research on either a case-study basis, or in terms of compiling figures and facts about a country or region, and participants should be given plenty of time to prepare this material.