Tuesday, 8 March 2016

The case for gender-sensitive policies in sub-Saharan Africa (Eyerusalem Siba, Brookings)

Zimbabwean women harvest maize from a field in a peri-urban suburb of Mabvuku in Harare, April 10, 2014.

Reflecting on International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8 every year, two questions kept me busy: why celebrate women, and is there any reasoning behind male preference? A common answer that I could find for both questions was that it is tougher to be a woman in environments where men and women are not treated equally.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/images/z/zf%20zj/zimbabwe_maize001/zimbabwe_maize001_16x9.jpg?w=230

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