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Risk response: When single women dominate the first-time buyer market in a country with chronic unemployment and rising living costs it tells us that traditional safety nets have failed. Photo: Freepik/AI
ABSA

Single women lead home buying

Many of them buy for control over their own lives and protection rather than prestige. That’s worrying

  • Ash Müller
5 min read
The views about the wealthy contributing to inequality are held mainly by people on the ideological left, although many on the right agree, according to the findings.
DISCRIMINATION INEQUALITY

Survey finds that wealthy influence, racial inequality and education drive economic divide

60% of respondents across 36 countries believe the political influence of the wealthy significantly contributes to economic inequality

  • Aarti Bhana
3 min read
Expressing anger on social media is merely performative outrage and does not result in action to prevent such abuse
ACADEMICS

Universities need to better address gender inequality, report says

The report by the Commission for Gender Equality found that universities were reluctant to review their sexual harassment policies This content is restricted to registered users…

  • Umamah Bakharia
1 min read
EQUAL PAY

Tackling the gender inequality issue in the South African workplace

Women are generally better investors and leaders than men, yet they are paid less and seldom rise to executive positions

  • Partner Content
6 min read
Well-wishers turn on their phone torches as they gather at a band-stand where a planned vigil in honour of alleged murder victim Sarah Everard was cancelled after police outlawed it due to Covid-19 restrictions, on Clapham Common, south London on March 13, 2021, – The police officer charged with murdering young Londoner, Sarah Everard, who disappeared while walking home from a friend’s house, appeared in court on March 13, 2021, as organisers cancelled a vigil in her honour due to coronavirus restrictions. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
COMMONWEALTH

End violence against women and save $1.5-trillion a year

High economic cost of gender-based violence should further motivate governments to take action

  • Patricia Scotland
5 min read
If sex work continues to be criminalised, sex workers will continue to be forced to work in unsafe, abusive and dangerous conditions. Photo: David Harrison
DECRIMINALISATION

Defending a prostituted person’s dignity starts with saying ‘no’ to full decriminalisation

Re-opening of South Africa’s prostitution law reform debate makes the mistake of assuming it is work and not exploitation.

  • Stefanie Kotze
7 min read
In light of the alarming statistics, there are growing calls globally to eliminate all forms of violence against children, women, men and the LGBTI+ community in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual exploitation. Photo: Supplied
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Digital technologies can help combat gender-based violence

Opportunities abound for tech to improve safety and assist victims.

  • Karabo Mokgonyana
8 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY

SA must close gender pay gap

While our situation is complicated by multiple historical inequalities, it is imperative that women participate meaningfully in all economic sectors

  • Aluwani Chokoe
3 min read
Data released by Statistics South Africa this week shows the unemployment rate fell to 33.9%, bucking expectations that the jobless level would tick up amid the second-quarter economic headwinds. (Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AUSTERITY

Women’s job crisis fix found in the public purse

Nearly half of South African women are left out of the country’s labour force — and gender-friendly budgeting could fix that

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
File photo by Marco Longari/AFP
BONANG MOHALE

R36-billion: The economic cost of gender-based violence

A new report delves into the view that the private sector is key to combatting violence against women and recommends that companies should include their efforts in corporate…

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read
(Getty Images)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Girls need ICT training to thrive in Fourth Industrial Revolution

There is a danger that they will be locked out of various job opportunities if they continue to be excluded from these educational fields

  • Reginah Chauke
5 min read
A farmer woman affected by the destruction of her village by a group of herdsmen, makes her way home after farming in a village near Dasso, Nigeria on February 18, 2019, just a few days ahead of the country’s general election. – Nomadic cattle herders and farmers are fighting in near-daily clashes that have left thousands dead in Nigeria and hundreds of villages affected. Both farmers and herdsmen hope the next government would settle their bloody feud. Over the past two years, the fighting has grown more bloody and more politicised with Nigeria’s incumbent President being accused of backing herders. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP) (Photo credit should read LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)
CLIMATE CHANGE

The smart climate money is on women

By directing climate resources effectively, the world could make significant — and simultaneous — progress in tackling both global warming and gender inequality

  • Marjut Falkstedt
5 min read
Helen Moloto, 53, inspects the celery she grows on her smallholding in Kgabalatsane, North West Province. She supplies some of her produce to the Hebron Mango Tree Owner’s Company. (James Puttick)
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Women plant seeds of resilience

Projects in North West and Limpopo grow hope of surviving climate change

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
This group of women from Tindiret sub-county in Kenya’s Nandi county crush stones (predominantly men’s work) to raise school fees for their children. (Tom Matoke/Nation Media Group)
AGRICULTURE

Kenyan women are crushing stones — and stereotypes

Crushing stones is seen as ‘men’s work’. But an all-women gravel-making group in Sarwat Village is turning both stones and stereotypes into ashes

  • Tom Matoke, The Daily Nation (Kenya)
5 min read
(John McCann)
COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY

Few women leaders in academia

Patriarchal culture still dominates university leadership in SA, despite an abundance of qualified women

  • Bongekile Macupe
7 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
GENDER GAP

We need more women in STEM careers

Local solutions are needed to get more women into science, technology, engineering and maths

  • Nox Makunga
5 min read
STIRLING, UNITED KINGDOM – FEBRUARY 09: Workers attend the opening of the Braes of Doune windfarm February 9, 2007 in Stirling, Scotland. The government has set a target for 10% of electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2010. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
ENERGY

How to build a women-powered, green-energy transition

As the globe moves towards greener energy practices, more women must be included in this new growth sector, for the benefit of all

  • Irene Giner-Reichl
4 min read
CLASS SOLIDARITY
Video

Eusebius McKaiser: A letter to us people who live in the suburbs

The Covid-19 lockdown means wealthy citizens must take a long-overdue look at our privilege. Now is the time for cross-class solidarity

  • Eusebius McKaiser
7 min read
More than 100 women have come forward to accuse US film producer Harvey Weinstein of various degrees of sexual misconduct.
EQUAL EDUCATION

What the Harvey Weinstein case can teach us about a complainant-centred process

The verdict highlights a number of critical issues required to build systems, processes and advocacy when it comes to working in the space of gender-based violence

  • Crystal Dicks
8 min read
Women must be allowed to determine their own future
COUNTRY

Women must be allowed to determine their own future

Women can best express their problems and solutions to the system we have today

  • Vuyolwethu Zungula 1
3 min read