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10 lessons from the COVID-19 frontline for a more gender-equal world
Women play an outsize role responding to crises, including as frontline healthcare and social workers, caregivers at home, and as mobilisers in their communities.
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UN chief declares women's inequality 'stupid' and a global shame
Antonio Guterres has warned that the state of women’s rights was dire and said he would seek to end 'default male thinking' across the United Nations.
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Taylor Swift felt slut-shamed
Taylor Swift admits it was 'hard' to be 'slut-shamed' in her 20s for dating the likes of Joe Jonas and Harry Styles.
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Ramaphosa urged to oversee female involvement in aviation, ocean economy
The president has heard how women in business are still marginalised in procurement and payments even though they make up 52% of the population.
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'The Annas?': Oscar honorees target Hollywood gender equality
'Thelma and Louise' star Davis told the annual Governors' Awards in Los Angeles how the feminist road movie had prompted her lifelong campaign for gender balance at the movies.
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Mabuza: Continued discrimination against women in workplace a concern for govt
The deputy president said that there are more women graduates at university level than men, yet women made up the biggest number of the unemployed.
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'Braking' boundaries: Palestinian women seek new chances
Recent months have seen protests in the West Bank after a 21-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her family members after posting a photo with her soon-to-be fiance on Instagram.
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UNFPA: A lot more must to be done to improve challenges girls face globally
International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated on 11 October 2019, under the theme GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: When a woman is empowered, it changes everything
The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, visited the University of Johannesburg to attend a roundtable discussion with academics and students to talk about education and gender equality. She also announced three new Queen Elizabeth scholarships given to African students to attend universities in South Africa.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Femicide: Here’s what men can do
Haji Mohamed Dawjee offers some hands-on, real-world advice to those boys and men who genuinely wish to support women.
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Perils of gender and geography hamper global development, report finds
The analysis by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found that some half a billion people worldwide still don’t get basic health and education, and girls everywhere suffer disadvantage.
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Gender parity fundamental to driving African growth
Ensuring the full development and productive deployment of half the world’s population will radically transform African economies.
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Ethiopia's top femtrepreneur paves the way for Africa's women
Hadia Mohamed Gondji is changing the narrative for African women determined to succeed in business.
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IFC invests in Stanbic Bank to support SME growth in Zambia
Zambia’s entrepreneurs battle to access finance due to informality in the market, high collateral requirements, and poor bank lending tools.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: The unintended consequences of Women’s Month
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says we can’t continue doing what we have been doing for the past 25 years and hope that we will have different results.
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WATCH: Semenya: They tried to control me. Now they're trying to get rid of me
SA Olympic champion Caster Semenya is headlining a list of powerful women speakers at the Top Women Conference.
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Govt calls on all parties to prioritise upliftment of women
Sixty-three years after women mounted a show of force against apartheid, South Africa's government has acknowledged there's still a long way to go for women.
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Nkoana-Mashabane: Women need more opportunities for equal education, jobs
Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Women Nkoana-Mashabane said South Africa's freedom was not free and every South African must fight together to make sure it was a better place for women.
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No country meeting global goals for gender equality: study
In 2015, all United Nations member states adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve by 2030 in areas such as education, climate, and gender equality.
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No country meeting global goals for gender equality - study
In 2015, all United Nations member states adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve by 2030 in areas such as education, climate, and gender equality.
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Rape, assault & exclusion of women continue to plague universities - report
The commission’s report on gender transformation in tertiary institutions has been tabled in Parliament and it shows how slow the pace of gender transformation is in the country’s universities.
