- Title
- Equal opportunities for women
- Creator
- Federation of Unions of South Africa
- Subject
- FEDUSA
- Date
- 1995
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110109
- Identifier
- vital:33224
- Description
- Over the last thirty years, there has been considerable evolution in the thinking about gender equality issues and the actions needed to achieve real changes in the position of women vis-a-vis men. Prior to the 1970s, women were defined mainly in terms of their conventional reproductive roles, and efforts to improve women's welfare focussed on such programmes as literacy courses, home economics, child care and family planning. Though no doubt valuable, such welfare and family-oriented programmes had the effect of reinforcing women's traditional role in the family. Since the 1970s, there has been a shift to the division of labour based on sex, and the impact of development and modernization strategies on women. It is important to understand that improvements in women's status require analysis of the relations between men and women, as well as the concurrence and cooperation of men. As illustrated in the Beijing document: "Achieving gender equality and empowerment of women requires redressing inequalities between women and men and girls and boys and ensuring their equal rights, responsibilities, opportunities and possibilities. Gender equality implies that women's as well as men's needs, interests, concerns, experiences and priorities are an integral dimension of the design, implementation, national monitoring and follow-up and evaluation, including at the international level, of all actions in all areas."
- Format
- 130 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
- Rights
- No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher
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