Women's Day

There's no shortage of research into the profound benefits of having women in positions of leadership. And yet, every Women's Day, the individuals and ...

And we have to actively dismantle the perception that their contribution is somehow intangible or ephemeral. Until systemic and sustainable change is achieved, we need to reiterate the importance of having women in leadership time and time again and drive transformation across industries. They’re starting to take advantage of the opportunities available to them, and to make their marks as they proceed through the ranks. Perhaps the world is coming round to the impact of the skills most commonly associated with women, and their value in helping businesses succeed amid adversity. We highlight the research that shows that women are more likely to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion, and to be allies to people of colour. We point to all the studies that indicate that women leaders are more empathetic, or that they are better communicators.

When women marched to the Union Buildings in 1956, they weren't just marching against the pass laws but also for the right to justice and leisure, ...

The right to laughter and play and engage in a variety of recreational activities. Both Women's Day and Women's Month thus signal a deep commitment to justice for all that also involves the right to leisure, especially for those women in South Africa who wish they can just have some respite from the seemingly never-ending violence and abuse. Disclaimer: News24 encourages freedom of speech and the expression of diverse views. In addition to the right to food, adequate shelter, freedom of movement, bodily integrity, owning land, and being in control of one's environment, Nussbaum's list also includes "Play. The ability to laugh, play, and have time for recreational activities". The right to spend time with family and friends. In this song that goes back to the Suffrage movement, these women invoke the basic human right of having enough food to eat, but also acknowledge that it is not only bodies that starve, but hearts as well.

Shiri is a 39-year-old foreign national from Harare, Zimbabwe, and started trading in South Africa in 2013. She and her family have so many opportunities ...

Shiri is a 39-year-old foreign national from Harare, Zimbabwe, and started trading in South Africa in 2013. Shiri is a 39-year-old foreign national from Harare, Zimbabwe, and started trading in South Africa in 2013. She and her family have so many opportunities here and she knows it would not have been the case for her and her children in Harare.

Young women need to focus on their education to break the cycle of being treated like second-class citizens, says minister of social development Lindiwe ...

More girls need to be educated and need to go to university. We need to pull each other up. "It is easy to say the conditions are not right, but instead young women must focus on their education.

Prof. Amanda Gouws. Gender-based violence remains the biggest issue facing South African women, experts say. Violence prevents women from accessing equality - a ...

During 2020, Stats SA brought out a report entitled: “Crimes against women in South Africa, an analysis of the phenomenon of GBV and femicide”. The analysis, ...

SA also has one of the worst rape rates in the world, and in 2016 ranked fourth out of 183 countries for incidence of femicide, according to the World Health Organisation. The crime stats in the same year as Uyinene’s death showed that a woman is murdered in the country every three hours. However, on August 24 2019, UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, walked into the Clareinch post office in Claremont. There she was raped and murdered by a post office clerk, and later found dead in a shallow grave after being reported missing for several days.

While gender-based violence (GBV) activists believed that hefty sentences were necessary, they said it was not enough to prevent the killing of women.

“Men need to play a meaningful role in building social cohesion and eradicating GBVF and gender inequality,” Dlamini said. Dr Judy Dlamini, chairperson of the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Response Fund, said it was not the systems that failed the country, but leaders from all sectors who put the systems, policies and practices together. Men need to become involved with their children and high levels of crime need to be brought under control,” she said. In light of the Krugersdorp gang rapes last week, the ANC Women’s League proposed chemical castration as a punishment for rapists. Attitudes of men and toxic masculinity need to be addressed. Recently, Ntuthuko Shoba received a life sentence for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend, Tshegofatso Pule, who was found hanging from a tree in June 2020 with stab wounds.

As South Africa prepares to mark Women's Day on Tuesday, one of the participants, Vanessa Nelson, said that women did not have anything to celebrate.

She is part of a group of women in Cape Town calling on government to fix the country. EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter)EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) #watchthis lady says her child was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of six. Shes unemployed and is not able to support her child financially.

To mark Women's Day, SAA has placed select flights under the complete control of women to celebrate their success and demonstrate support for gender ...

All-female flight initiatives like this are important as they demonstrate to people, particularly young girls, and women that nothing is impossible,” said Pillay. Captain Anuska Pillay and first officer Michelle Coombes will be in the cockpit. Two of the three all-female crew will depart from Johannesburg to Harare at 10.40am (SA022) and Johannesburg to Durban at 4.55pm (SA571) on Tuesday to commemorate National Women’s Day.

When it comes to anatomy, maggots and murder, women are taking the lead in the city of gold. Johannesburg Forensic Pathology Services (FPS) Medico Legal ...

Forensics relates to the investigation of crime. She said their job was to ensure the cases were brought to the fore, ensuring justice is done and potentially taking a murderer out of society. That is how she began her career, starting at the forensic toxicology lab straight from university.

Hundreds of South African women are subjected to harsh economic hardship and victims of gender-based violence. Those who are working, are still in the ...

A system meant to control women and reduce women to passive beings, at the mercy of men. The Gauteng Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko and a group of women to march to the High Court and the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Ramaphosa said the state has a constitutional and moral duty to protect women against all forms of gender-based violence, which continue to impair the exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms. “We know that in many jurisdictions in the world, women and girls are also subjected to trafficking, discrimination, abuse, exploitation and the worst forms of violence,” he said. “We are in the grip of what is no less than an unrelenting war on the bodies of the women and children of this country. Hundreds of South African women are still subject to harsh economic hardship and victims of gender-based violence and those who are working are still in the struggle to be paid equal as their male counterparts.

Rape Crisis is considered 'the most experienced organisation in South Africa working in the area of adult rape and sexual violence' according to their site. The ...

That is why it is important to support the people who are trying to make South Africa a better and safer place. You can donate to the Frida Hartley Women Shelter here. You can donate to POWA here You can donate to Rape Crisis here. If you are looking for something meaningful to do, here are five organisations that you can support this women’s day. Here are five organisations that you can support on Women’s Day Image: @chloesimpson / Unsplash

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. MINISTER PANDOR: And I wish to thank all of the women researchers, and particularly President Gray here as well, just to say thank ...

And here we are celebrating Women’s Day in South Africa – it’s particularly fitting to be here to do that and to see the critical role that women play in events and science and technology, to making sure that they have every opportunity to do that, because when they do, we see the results. (Laughter.) I gave you that award. So I think what women scientists have taught us is we need to be bold, we need to be active and practical in terms of ensuring that women enjoy equal opportunity. We had 67 competent candidates, and all those posts went to women. We were very concerned when we first introduced the program that women were not being appointed as research chairs. If you ever need to get a dose of hope and optimism for the future, it’s right here and it’s women who are leading the way, not surprisingly. If you take your eye away, you will find that they don’t. So it’s very important that we follow through, and I have always been really, really proud of women scientists in our country and the work that they’re doing, and especially optimistic about young women scientists. I just want to thank everyone for sharing the incredible work that they’re doing. SECRETARY BLINKEN: — (inaudible) in ways that I don’t. But it’s just incredibly inspiring to be here today. And I’m particularly pleased to be here with my friend and colleague, the foreign minister, who in a previous experience had the science and technology portfolio. And life-changing results – again, not just for South Africa but for the continent and the for the world. SECRETARY BLINKEN: (In progress) do what we did just to go around and see this.