Is Formal Education Empowering?
We had earlier observed that the consensus among opinion moulders and discussants in non-formal education settings is that access to formal education and literacy training for girls and women will …
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Are we There Yet? Perspectives on Women and Leadership
This profile explores notions of leadership by highlighting the perspectives of six leaders (five women, one man) from diverse backgrounds. They shared with me the challenges and pleasures of being…
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Feminist Africa 6: Subaltern Sexualities
Anyone who is passionate about women, gender and development in African contexts needs to interrogate discourses about African sexuality. These discourses have long histories of academic authority …
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Marxist Feminism Meets Postcolonial Feminism in Organizational Theorizing: Is…
In this paper I discuss the issues and implications of simultaneously drawing upon Marxist and Postcolonial feminist approaches to organizational theorizing in developing a theoretical/analytical…
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Women and Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors, and …
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a pan-African, women-led, grant-making foundation supporting African women’s organisations working at local, national, and regional level to promo…
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Naive Meritocracy and the Meanings of Myth
Hackers and other geeks have long described their spaces as meritocratic. Geek feminists challenge this belief as a myth. In short, so-called meritocracies reproduce extant members and favor incide…
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Socio-cultural factors that perpetuate the spread of HIV among women and girl…
The human immuno- deficiency virus (HIV) pandemic is still ravaging, after the first case was diagnosed more than twenty years ago. Women are disproportionally affected, in 2008/2009 HIV prevalenc…
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Case Study: Legal Action to Stop Hotels Discriminating Against Women in Zambia
This case study takes a personal look at legal action taken against a Zambian hotel in Lusaka during the period 1984–1992 to stop their discrimination against women in access to the hotel. The …
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Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women
Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, told a story at AWDF’s 15th anniversary event. She had made a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo with a number of fellow Nobel Prize …
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Feminism and Contemporary Culture in South Africa
This project1 was born out of the rapidly shifting cultural geographies of post-apartheid South Africa where the position of women illuminates critical issues about how the political and social str…
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