- Title
- Chieftainship succession and gender equality in Lesotho: negotiating the right to equality in a jungle of pluralism
- Creator
- Juma, Laurence
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127067
- Identifier
- vital:35951
- Identifier
- https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/tjwl22amp;div=11amp;g_sent=1amp;casa_token=amp;collection=journals
- Description
- Women constitute about 51% of Lesotho's population 1 and enjoy a higher literacy rate than men. 2 They are also the backbone of a society that for several hundreds of years provided male labor to South Africa's farms and gold mines.3 However, Basotho women are generally excluded from mainstream politics and are discriminated against in almost all spheres of socioeconomic life. This exclusion, marginalization, and discrimination have been largely blamed on patriarchy and entrenched traditional norms, both of which are sustained by a plural legal system that has seemingly remained insular to developments around the globe. 4
- Format
- 63 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Texas Journal of Women, Gender and the Law, Juma, L., 2012. Chieftainship succession and gender equality in Lesotho: Negotiating the right to equality in a jungle of pluralism. Tex. J. Women and L., 22, p.157., Texas Journal of Women, Gender and the Law volume 22 number 1 157 218 2012 1058-5427
- Rights
- Juma, Laurence
- Rights
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