South African women are more money-savvy than they used to be with more bank accounts than men, but they still earn less than their male counterparts.
The judicial candidates for SA’s highest court are all women, but real change requires an end to sexism.
The General Council of the Bar has announced the establishment of a transformation committee to monitor progress after initiatives failed.
The marginalisation of women in science occurs globally, but representation is particularly dire in Africa.
Inspired by a campaign by advocacy organisation ONE, seven prominent African singers are highlighting the impact of poverty on gender equality.
The country will probably fail to meet the millennium development goals as statistics suggest women are not benefitting from legislative gains.
What began in Afghanistan to inspire confidence in girls has landed in the parks and on the rooftops of Jo’burg’s inner city.
South Africa’s gender wage gap is among the world’s worst, with women earning a third less on average than men.
Gender-based abuse costs South Africa up to R40bn a year, but can be tackled at its root by dads taking an active role in caring for their children.
Is government committed to fighting for or against women? A mistake in a press release for 16 days of activism is revealing, writes Verashni Pillay.
Despite numerous targets and campaigns, the pay gap is actually getting bigger by the year and women still earn less than men.
The recommendation for the judge president post of the high court in the Free State comes as candidates bemoan gender issues in the legal profession.
Differences between the sexes must be defined to be accepted – but should the language defining these differences be changed?
Playing the gender card has its merits, but will Thandi Modise also do and say the unthinkable just to stay alive, asks Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
Times are changing, albeit slowly, particularly within the younger expat Arab communities living in the Gulf states, who live away from relatives.
France has gone back on its plan to teach pupils about gender equality amid protests from the country’s conservative right and religious groups.
The challenges women face cannot be denied, but let us not lose sight of where we have come from, writes Edna Molewa.
Zille has said there is a strong likelihood there will be more than one woman in the provincial executive after the elections.
The adoption of a new Bill, now before Cabinet, would help to fully emancipate South African women, Women’s Minister Lulu Xingwana said in Tshwane.
Madiba is lauded for his contribution to the recognition of black people’s dignity, and for guaranteeing the human rights of sexual minorities.
A same-sex married couple have expressed their anger at the apparent reluctance of a Durban-based Christian school to accept their children.
Of the 2 500 movers and shakers who have descended on the picture-postcard Swiss ski resort, for the World Economic Forum, a mere 17% are women.
Women’s rights in Morocco are poised to improve with the probable scrapping of a law allowing rapists of minors to avoid jail by marrying them.
To some, gender may seem to be an unimportant topic, a frivolous diversion from the more critical problems of poverty, war, disease or racism.
Civil society services for rape survivors are being forced to scale back due to funding issues.
The ANC’s leaders risk erasing the long and painful history of women’s struggle for equality. They could learn a thing or two from the youth league.
A golden age of female achievement, buttressed by an acceptance in the sacred sphere, is now largely unknown.
The ANC’s policy documents on gender equality make for cautiously optimistic reading.
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Committee chairperson clears issue of filling vacancies in the Gender commission.
The Islamist party that won Tunisia’s first post-revolution election says it will elevate a decades-old gender equality statute to a basic law.
Outgoing JSE chief executive Russell Loubser’s recent slapping of a female <em>M&G</em> reporter’s behind at a press conference serves as a metaphor.
It might sound counterproductive, but any strategy to address violence against women has to work to empower men too, says Helen Joseph speaker.