Getting There with Gender Equality in the Namibian Enterprises, but Questioning Empowerment

Abstract

The chapter examines gender equality in Namibian enterprises. Using the secondary data of the World Bank Namibia Enterprise Data Survey of 2014/2015, the study measures equality due to women empowerment initiatives in access to land and finances, ICT use, and corruption exposure. With the chi-square test of independence, the findings reveal that of the 24 variables examined, only three show significant differences between female and male-led business organizations, leading to a conclusion that there is equality in the business organizations. Nonetheless, with the contestation of the gender equality concept, the study proposes the decoloniality of the women empowerment idea to get to gender empowerment based on Ubuntu thinking (the African concept of humanness or what it means to be human).