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Despite an internal investigation finding a senior manager guilty of sexual misconduct, they remain employed by the municipality and continue to receive a salary. Graphic: John McCann

Urgent need for clear policy on sexual harassment in legal sector

An independent, rigorous process for investigating complaints of abuse of power of a sexual nature must be set up to provide guidance for tribunal investigations

File photo: University of Stellenbosch students embark on a Start Letting Us Talk (SLUT) march during International Women’s Day commemoration on March 07, 2017 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. (Photo by Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Resisting gender discrimination: The call for resocialisation in South Africa

Changing damaging socio-cultural norms that justify discrimination against women is a powerful form of resistance

Tackling the gender inequality issue in the South African workplace

It is essential that the needs of working mothers are accommodated

People’s lives have been disrupted by climate change and the National Dialogue is the platform to raise this. Photo: File

Why climate action must include women’s voices

In June, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change released a report on the gender-differentiated impacts of climate change. Drawing on hundreds of peer-reviewed…

A recent study of more than 200 rural respondents in the Eastern Cape, where drought has severely affected quality of life and food security, found that although farmers are actively trying to build resilience against climate change, more coordination was needed between state entities and local government to support them. (Photo: Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Tebogo Letsie

Court victory for 400 000 elderly black women

An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to…

A recent study of more than 200 rural respondents in the Eastern Cape, where drought has severely affected quality of life and food security, found that although farmers are actively trying to build resilience against climate change, more coordination was needed between state entities and local government to support them. (Photo: Gallo Images/Netwerk 24/Tebogo Letsie

Climate crisis and gender

Women are hit hardest by climate change – and they’re fighting back

There is perhaps no better way to guarantee that people submit to the rules than by making sure that they feel included and integrated in the community that adheres to them. (John McCan/M&G)

Communitarian ideals in capitalist workplaces

Companies are trying to build community among workers. But this can have sinister side-effects

The woman, who became a medical student this year after passing an exam at a different university, said she hopes her suit will encourage fairer admissions. (AFP)

Woman sues Tokyo medical schools over discrimination

Last year it emerged that medical universities had routinely altered the admissions test scores of applicants to keep some of them out

Dorcus Moleli said she had to work twice as hard as her male counterparts to succeed. (Graphic: John McCann)

Dorcus Moleli

Head of quality, Danone South Africa

Elias Sito (surveyor) busy at work while Bongani Sibiya (geologist) and Marousha Parshotam (senior engineer) discuss location and geology of a new shaft. (Geoff Brown)

Old boy club dominates engineering

Women who raise their voices against the sexism in this field do so at the risk of their careers

Barcelona’s Paco Alcacer in action with Sporting’s Gelson Martins. (Reuters)

Tokyo med school admits it altered tests to keep women out

The scandal was uncovered by investigators looking into claims the university padded the scores of an education ministry bureaucrat’s son

Women across the country’s nine provinces joined the #TheTotalShutdownMarch to protest the alarming rates of gender-based violence in South Africa. (David Harrison/M&G)

#THETOTALSHUTDOWN: Memorandum of demands

This document sets out our list of demands to the state

The National Institute of Communicable Diseases has urged all South Africans to get a flu vaccination

Morocco’s women surfing the waves in taboo sport

Despite efforts to improve the status of women in the North African country, attitudes have been slow to change.

Choreographer Somizi Mhlongo walked out of the Grace Bible Church on Sunday following remarks by Ghanaian bishop Dag Heward-Mills.

Grace Bible Church: We don’t discriminate against anyone

The church is yet to condemn Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, who is accused of making homophobic remarks.

Nigeria’s Kenneth Omeruo in action with England’s Harry Kane.

Policing communities: How the SAPS is failing to uphold LGBTI rights

With the SAPS perpetuating discrimination against gay and lesbian people, members of South Africa’s LGBTI community continue to fear the police.

The M&G’s first Rainbow fellow: ‘I want to help empower LGBTI Africans’

The M&G’s first Rainbow fellow, Carl Collison, shares why issues affecting the LGBTI community on the continent are so important to him.

Women in tech talk about marginalisation and how to shatter glass ceilings

They believe they’re not taken seriously so a Cape Town conference was held to explore solutions.

Semenya, who has dominated the 800m race over the last decade, has remained largely silent through the court battle, excluding statements from her legal team condemning the IAAF’s tactics and policies. (AFP)

Caster Semenya’s body is being claimed by self-important armchair pundits

‘Her body, seen as an anomaly, is no longer hers. It “belongs” to sports bodies, media houses and quick-on-the-draw armchair pundits … ‘

The silent protest shed light on rape but many choose to see it as anti-Zuma

Anger over the government’s absolute failure to tackling gender-based violence has seen a resurgence of gender activism – and it’s young and militant.

South African running is itself a race to compete. (Nick Laham/Getty)

For girls who don’t want shoes in tampon box colours

Fleek’s the new buzzword for trendy. But when it comes to what’s on your feet, only men can be fleek, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.