Maria Judite Mario Chipenembe Ngale PhD

Dr. Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe was born in Chimoio, Province of Manica/Mozambique been a University Professor and Social Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the Eduardo Mondlane University since 2004 and at the University of Sao Tomas de Mocambique since 2010. In 2018, she completed her Doctorate degree in Gender and Diversity Studies at the University of Ghent and the Free University of Brussels. In 2004 he completed a Master's Degree in Economic and Organizational Sociology at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (ISEG/UTL), and in 2001 a Licentiate Degree in Anthropology at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM). From 2006 to 2009, she served as Coordinator of the Degree Course in Sociology at UEM and Head of the Department of Sociology at USTM (2010-2016).

Her areas of interest are related to issues related to intersectionality where the categories/variables gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics intersect and influence issues related to sexual reproductive health, poverty, diversity, inequalities in access to power well as to employment between men and women in a context of post-colonial Mozambique.

She has published several articles and book sections, from which the following stand out: “I am she/he: The experiences of transgender people in Nampula” (2020); “Sexual rights activism in Mozambique: a qualitative case study of civil society organization and experiences of lesbians, bisexual and transgender persons (2018); “Gender dynamics in domestic work in the city of Maputo (2010); “Manual of terms and concepts related to the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.