scholarly journals Gender equality in corporate South Africa: A Christian ethical approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-136
Author(s):  
Christin E. Bøsterud ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Ethical Approach

scholarly journals THE FEMINIST AGENDA, A FALL OF HIERARCHAL REDRESS OR AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISHING AN ‘EQUAL’ SOCIETY GONE WRONG: AN INTERNAL CRITIQUE TO FEMINIST THEORIES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Motshweni
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
South African ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Critical Race Feminism ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Point Of Departure

The aim of this paper is to interrogate the post-1994 feminist approaches to jurisprudential discourse. This interrogation will include a consideration as to whether critical instead of ‘traditional’ feminist theories contribute in transforming or decolonising South African law and jurisprudence. It is my suggestion that the inquiry to address ‘gender equality’ before and without addressing issues of racism and racial classism simultaneously in South Africa contributes effectively to the continued marginalisation of black women. As such, my position attempts to engage with the critical feminist approaches in order to address the prejudices that traditional feminist approaches impose on black women. The focal theoretical point of departure for this interrogation is critical race feminism.2 Critical race feminism proposes a progressive initiative for addressing the inconsistencies embodied within the traditional feminist approaches and is thus suitable for the South African post-apartheid context as it may trigger ‘transformative possibilities’.3 It is my contention that in order to address the marginalisation of black women, the traditional feminist approaches (such as the dominant feminist approaches) must be done away with for they are a hindrance to legal reform, as they prejudice the very structure they claim to protect.

scholarly journals Process elements contributing to community mobilization for HIV risk reduction and gender equality in rural South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. e0225694
Author(s):  
Catherine MacPhail ◽  
Nomhle Khoza ◽  
Sarah Treves-Kagan ◽  
Amanda Selin ◽  
Xavier Gómez-Olivé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Hiv Risk Reduction ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Process Elements ◽  
Rural South Africa

Gender and Rules of Procedure in Constituent Processes: A Comparative Discussion in Support of the Chilean Constitutional Convention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin C. Houlihan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Expert Panel ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
Comparative Information ◽  
Virtual Seminar

On 6 August 2021 International IDEA, in partnership with the Law Faculty of UniversidadAdolfo Ibáñez, Corporación Humanas and ComunidadMujer, held a virtual seminar on gender and rules of procedure in constituent processes. Its objective was to share comparative information about designing rules of procedure (regulations) for constituent processes from a gender-equality perspective with members of the newly constituted Chilean Constitutional Convention, Chilean civil society, academics and legal practitioners. The open-invitation online event brought together a panel of women constitution-makers from constituent processes in Bolivia, Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia. The experts discussed their respective experiences and the benefits and drawbacks of the rules of procedure that guided their constituent processes. Representatives from the implementing partners moderated expert panel sessions and question-and-answer discussions.

Female peacekeepers’ added burden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Wilén
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Relations Of Power

Abstract Twenty years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 there is an almost unanimous call for an increased number of uniformed women in peace operations from policy-makers and multilateral organizations. This continuous push for the inclusion of more women is often justified by arguments about an increased operational effectiveness related to women's ‘added value': both implicitly and explicitly advocating for greater gender equality. Yet, in this article, I contend that using instrumentalist arguments to increase the number of female peacekeepers may on the contrary undermine gender equality. This is related to the risk of producing self-fulfilling prophecies whereby female peacekeepers try to live up to the high expectations by fitting into gender-stereotypes and/or by working harder than their male colleagues. Rather than increase gender equality, such efforts risk transforming the female ‘added value’ to an ‘added burden’ which male peacekeepers do not have to carry. Anchoring the study infeminist theory with the aim to understand gendered relations of power, to illustrate my argumentI draw on extensive interview material from military staff and peacekeepers in South Africa, Burundi, Belgium and Niger; interviews and informal discussions with female and male peacekeepers; and participation in several policy and research workshops on female participation in peacekeeping.

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