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Gender inequality and discrimination remain significant issues in South Africa, despite the country's progressive constitution and various policy initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality. [1] The societal norms, economic disparities, and systemic challenges that perpetuate gender inequality and discrimination are deep-rooted issues.
The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill (WEGE) aimed to promote equality between men and women in South Africa. The bill was passed in 2013, and allowed for the implementation of measures to increase equality, such as designing programs to ensure women held fifty percent representation in decision-making structures. [ 1 ]
Feminism in South Africa has been shaped by struggles for political and racial equality, as well as by national and transnational struggles for gender equality. [6] Woman in South Africa have historically faced a myriad of state-facilitated and socially-practiced discrimination including pay discrimination.
The vision of the CGE is "a society free from gender oppression and inequality". Its mission is to "advance, promote and protect gender equality in South Africa through undertaking research, public education, policy development, legislative initiatives, effective monitoring and litigation". [3] [4]
South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution was the first in the world to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, and in 2006, South Africa was the fifth country in the world and the first in Africa to legalise same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples can also adopt children jointly, and also arrange IVF and surrogacy treatments. LGBTQ ...
In 2000, Gross helped to secure the first known mention of intersex in national law, [5] [6] with the inclusion of "intersex" within the definition of "sex" in the anti-discrimination law of the Republic of South Africa. [7] Subsequently, she helped to draft legislation [5] [8] on the Alteration of Sex Descriptors, and the Promotion of Equality.
The Commission on Gender Equality monitors issues of gender in civil society. The functions are set out clearly in Section 190, which provides that “the evolving constitutional jurisprudence emanating from the Constitutional Court suggests a clear break from South Africa's ignominious legal past to one forged on principles of equality and non ...
Mandisa Monakali (d. 3 November 2024) [1] [2] [3] was a South African public speaker, educator, social worker, researcher, lobbyist, advocate, project manager, strategic planner, workshop and community organizer. She was the founder and Executive Director of Ilitha Labantu.