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MAINSTREAMING GENDER INTO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT: An Examination of the Strategies of Urban Women in the Informal Sector‟s Livelihoods: A Case Study of Harare.
(2013-06-04)
Despite that a number of central government ministries and local authorities and non-state sector agencies have adopted a number of policies and strategies to address urban poverty, women prevalently continue to dominate ...
An Evaluation of the Impact of Domestic Water Supply and Challenges faced by Women in Rural Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Sigangatsha and Malaba wards of Matobo District
(2013-06-04)
Water for domestic purposes is a scarce resource in the rural areas of Sigangatsha and Malaba wards, and the group mostly affected by this scarcity is women. This dissertation focused three objectives and the first objective ...
Equal Opportunities in Educational Management in Institutions of Higher Learning: An Agenda for Gender
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)
The article discusses the issue of gender disparities within education which have
been long standing in many parts of the world. The discussion centres on the need
for educational management boards to balance the selection ...
Men and Women: Gender Issues in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and She No Longer Weeps
(James Currery Ltd, 1996)
Structural adjustment in Zimbabwe: Its impact on women
(Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, 1988-11)
The Government of Zimbabwe has neither fully implemented structural adjustment nor has it clearly stated its position regarding the use of structural adjustment in its management of the economy.
However, Government has, ...
The position of women in employment with specific reference to the Public Service. Some comments on the opinions of the Ministry of Community and Cooperative Development and Women's Affairs
(Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, 1991)
This paper is an attempt to study and analyse the position of the Ministry of Community and Cooperative Development and Women's Affairs on the following issues:
Summary of Recommendations of the UN Decade for Women.
Employment ...
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: An Attempt in the Feminist Tradition
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1994)
This article discusses Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions as an attempt in the feminist tradition. It begins by examining the meanings of the words 'gender" 'female', 'feminist' and 'feminine' and then goes on to ...
'The Politics of the Womb’: Women, Politics and The Environment in Pre-Colonial Chivi, Southern Zimbabwe, c.1840 to 1900
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)
Women have always played a vital role in the environment of pre-colonial Zimbabwe
especially as they constituted the backbone of traditional agriculture. Pre-colonial
studies have either ignored or understated that fact. ...
White women and domesticity in colonial Zimbabwe, c.1890 to 1980
(2015)
The study analyses white women‟s experiences in colonial Zimbabwe in relation to domesticity. As in most new colonial territories, one of the mandates of the coloniser was to domesticate „the wild‟ (that is the indigenous ...
Women in Mungoshi's Short Stories
(Prestige Books, 2006)