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/ 25 November 2010
Executive director of Gender Links attempts to explain the difference between sex and rape in South African society.
Colleen Lowe Morna and Sikhonzile Ndlovu examine how the media undermine the value of older women in our society.
In less than one lifetime, Ghana and Zimbabwe have swopped positions internationally, writes Colleen Lowe Morna.
When South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka served as minister of minerals and energy, a large portrait of a woman miner hung above her desk. On closer examination you realise the miner is Mlambo-Ngcuka herself. “I always believe in getting into whatever I am doing,” she laughs.
Officially, the United Nations conference is being called Beijing and Beyond. But a worldwide NGO review entitled <i>Beijing Betrayed</i> concludes that "governments have failed to turn the platform into action". The report says that despite well-meaning statements, "many women in all regions are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago".
A call for quotas to ensure that 50% of all public representatives are female is raising hackles, writes Colleen Lowe Morna. If SA adopted the legislated quota, it would be the first country to achieve gender parity in politics.