Source: Daily Trust
Several people do not regard any task done within the home and not paid for as work, no matter how tedious or long it takes. That is why it is common to hear people saying 'that woman is not working" even if she works from morning till night and someone who goes out to do something even if for a few hours and comes home, but receives wages or pay at the end of the month or any other time frame is said to be working.
Source: Health Canal
Global attitudes about domestic violence have changed dramatically since 2000, according to a new University of Michigan study that analyzes data from 26 low- and middle-income countries.
Source: Tech Central
Financially distressed pay-television operator TopTV has been given the nod by its regulator to broadcast three adult content channels. The company may only broadcast the channels — Playboy TV, Desire TV and Private Spice — between 8pm and 5am, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has ruled.
Source: Biz Community
Source: Manica Post
WOMEN'S economic empowerment is a major thrust of the national gender machinery's plans and programmes to advance gender equality and secure women's socio-economic rights. Zimbabwe has two initiatives to increase Government's capacity to deliver on (a) gender responsive economic and financial policy formulation and (b) to deliver better on the allocation of resources to improve the lived realities of women and girls that is Gender Responsive Budgeting and the Gender and Economic Policy Management Initiative.
Source: Awoko
The West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAP) continues its deliberation on agriculture, social and environmental safeguards and gender, the Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children's Affairs yesterday called for women's empowerment. Speaking at the second launch of the second part of the meeting which focuses on the social and environmental safeguards and gender, the Minister said development in the Continent is discouraging because of the governments neglect of the second "other half" which are the women.
THE number of pregnant women turning up to utilize formal system before and during delivery in Tarime has significantly increased, thanks to the Africa Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) for initiating a health project that has widely benefited thousands of rural women in the area.
Esther Madudu is one of the many midwives working in the rural areas of Africa who are facing many day to day challenges such as lack of electricity and running water, among other things.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE national website on gender issues clearly states that the government of Tanzania recognises that women's advancement and achievement of gender equality are a matter of human rights and a condition to social justice. It also states that the government reaffirms its commitment to enhancement of women's rights for national and world progress.
Source: The Chronicle
Known for his prolific outspokenness and hard truth on issues, Okeame-Kwame has made another in-depth analysis towards contributing to the abuse of women as sex objects in music videos. According to him, there has been a trend in recent music videos which have witnessed images of female dancers in semi-naked customs, making very suggestive moves in a much sexier manner, which obviously, does not relate to the Ghanaian culture.
Source: Heritage
A well built feminine structure, with a straightforward posture, in her early 60s but still very nimble and persuasive, Madam Martorma Saryon is Lofa County first female Paramount Chief in the political history of that far northern Liberian county. Lofa County is situated in the northernmost portion of Liberia, with seven political districts, Voinjama serving as the Capital City.
Source: The News
The Secretariat and Administrative Support Staff Association of the Ministry of Health (SASAMOH) has been officially launched with former Chief Justice criticizing the continued sexual abuses against female workers. Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott claimed that female staffers continued to be harassed and abused by their bosses on a daily basis.
Source: Daily Trust
Mni — Hajj is Islam's fifth pillar and a journey for completion of a Muslim's faith. Those who have the resources and can travel in safety to Makkah are enjoined to perform hajj at least once in their lifetime. For such an important religious activity, Muslims worldwide invest money and time in ensuring that pilgrims are taught the rites of hajj and perform it hitch free.
Source: IT News Africa
South Africa needs to actively encourage young girls to consider technology as a career option if the country is going to address key issues like the current skills shortage in the IT sector and spiralling levels of youth unemployment.
In a tiny sweltering tin-roofed shack tucked inside one of Mogadishu’s bullet-riddled neighbourhoods, two brothers, Ali Hassan and Mustafa Yare, sit hunched over one of eight humming desktop computers. Together they show Nasteexo Cadey, a young veiled student at Mogadishu University, how to set up her Facebook account, browse YouTube videos and check her e-mail.
Emphasising the commitment of the African Union (AU) to promoting gender equality, AU Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has called on African women to contribute to the continent’s renaissance.
Source: Leadership
As part of Nigeria's centenary celebrations, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation organised a two-day conference to celebrate Nigerian women last week. Discussions at the event included issues concerning women in the country such as gender imbalance, violence against women including rape, and girl-child education. Deriving from discussions during the conference, a country report is expected soon.
Source: Vanguard
The beauties that have become the cynosure of cameramen covering the weekly meetings of the Federal Executive Council, FEC is one indication of the increasing prominence of the female gender in the polity. Newspaper editors aiming to give their pages some lustiness or fresh air easily resort to the pictures of these radiant women who grace President Goodluck Jonathan's executive chambers every Wednesday.
A young mother – who only wants to be identified as Karren – beamed as she nursed her newborn baby at the University of Witwatersrand’s Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, in Hillbrow, South Africa.
Source: Front Page Africa
Ma Mary sits at the back of her Battery Factory residence, head slightly leaning on one side resting on her hands. The mother of two of the girls currently in police custody, is cannot come to terms with the news that her little girls had just been screened in a pornographic video by a 43-year-old Lebanese man.