Gender inequalities persevere in Africa, yet gender equality is a fundamental human right. Using phenomenology, this chapter explored the experiences of nine Zimbabwean women on gender equalities relating to education, employment and entrepreneurship issues and how they overcame challenges encountered. We ...
March 5, 2024 Reports & Guides In our business world and entire society, gender discrimination is a persuasive issue. It suppresses voices and obstructs opportunities, hindering progress toward sustainable development and a more equitable future. ...
Indeed, “[M]ost of the successful legal claims for trans equality have come through strategic use of the medical model of transsexuality” (Spade, 2003, p. 30; Spade demonstrates the disciplinary and formative relationship between medical systems, the law and gender intelligibility). Legal protect...
mainstreaming in all sectors of the economy as an essential toll to ‘eliminate all negative economic, social and cultural practices that impede equality of sexes,’ and gender equality as ‘fundamental to achieving equitable, sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development’,” President Mnangagwa...
However, Africa has a poor track record of gender equality especially in the political sphere, with only about 25% of women in national parliaments (Nchofoung et al., 2021a, Nchofoung et al., 2021a, 2022). Though there are few exceptions like Rwanda with representations of 61.3% and 38....
In material terms, controlling the visible leakage of menstrual fluid presents numerous practical and psychological challenges that affect the spatial mobility and wider equality of women that lack access to modern sanitary products. In more symbolic terms, there are many examples of puberty – and me...
Similarly, policies that promote equality in educational outcomes between men and women are also likely to reduce the gender gap in well-being. In this respect, while transformative gains in women’s education have unfolded in recent decades, significant gender gaps still remain (UN,2022). For ...
SADC (Southern African Development Community) Parliamentary Action on Gender Equality and Personal Security: International Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-... A Institute 被引量: 0发表: 1998年 Gold, Scorched Earth and Water: The Hydropolitics of Johannesburg International Journal of Water Resources ...
Children’s toys represent influential cultural products that are strongly gender-stereotyped (Cherney and London2006), even in societies with an explicit emphasis on gender equality policies, such as Sweden (Nelson2005). This pattern is unsurprising given the extent to which many popular toys featur...
3 SDG 5: Gender equality Key links to other SDGs: Goal 1 – No poverty: women comprise 60% of the working poor globally. Goal 3 – Good health and well-being: more women and girls die younger in developing countries than boys and men. Gendered impacts include maternal health. Evidence...