ISS TODAY: Is Africa equal and enabled enough to empower women? By Liezelle Kumalo and Tsion Tadesse Abebe for ISS Today
Global Gender Gap Report, developed by the World Economic Forum, says sub-Saharan Africa has achieved significant improvements towards closing the gender gap. The report measures four areas – health, education, work and politics.
Despite these positive developments, an equal and enabled Africa remains a distant prospect for millions of women. The World Economic Forum report estimates that it will take sub-Saharan Africa 95 years togender gaps, due to multiple layers of gender challenges. So the 8 March International Women’s Day theme – “Each for Equal: An equal world is an enabled world” – is timely.
“Quotas to increase the employment of women have not served to redress gender inequality in any meaningful way, because power lies with those who make decisions,” says Dr Chandré Gould, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies. Women “still face bullying, sexual harassment and even sexual violence in the workplace”.
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