Although society portrays a woman who earns a living as free and empowered, outdated values and stereotypes still promote discrimination against female breadwinners.
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South Africa has a long history of women at the helm of its foreign affairs ministry but this hasn't translated into a gender balanced foreign policy environment
South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
All three female contenders for the presidency of the ANC and South Africa have strong liberation struggle credentials and have also contributed to democracy. But, are they up to the job?
African Studies remains a colonised space rife with misrepresentation, homogenisation and essentialising about Africa.
The way in which one group of South African student protesters has acted and engaged with university managers shows how valuable a feminist approach to protest can be.
The practices around the traditional passage to manhood in South Africa are changing and beginning to encompass women as family patterns change. But, there are mixed feelings about the changes.
South Africa is emblematic of why violence against women responses in Africa are failing. While good measures are being rolled out, it lacks a united, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary response.
National Women’s Day in South Africa marks the historic protest in 1956 of women against apartheid policies. But, six decades on, black women have yet to fully embrace feminism as a discourse.
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Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Clinical Psychologist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa
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Professor of Political Science and SARChi Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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