TUESDAY EDITORIAL: Stop telling lies about women’s lives – inequality is a political choice of government and business

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The Constitution’s injunction to government is that in all policy, law and actions of governance it should be acting to progressively realise women’s rights; or, in the case of girl children, it should be doing everything possible to fulfil these rights...

Another lament. Another set of editorials. Another set of op-eds.In some ways, the less said officially about Women’s Day 2022 the better because it’s bound to involve some degree of hypocrisy, including from the media.

In a country that consistently puts women first – first in poverty, first in violence, first in unemployment, first in vulnerability to disease andHowever, we are compelled to try.Women’s Socio-Economic Rights and Empowerment: Building Back Better for Women’s Improved Resilience”. They say “The concept of Generation Equality is a global campaign and links South Africa toHowever the truth is that women’s inequality in South Africa is getting steadily worse.

we are on an upward trend towards the achievement of gender equality”. Representation and recognition in law is of course very important, but the real measure is the lived reality of women in poor communities.• there are more than 6,2 million unemployed women, including those discouraged from finding jobs. The overwhelming majority of these women are black African. In quarter 1 of 2022, 47.

• 37% of SA households are headed by women, and 48% of female-headed households support extended family members. In these households headed by black women, R58,000 is an average annual expenditure, while white women-headed households spend four times higher annually, at R258,000.show that between January and March 2022, 10,818 women were raped, which amounts to 121 rapes a day.

So it’s worth reminding ourselves what the socioeconomic rights that the government promises to “build back better” with actually promise. We should also point out that the Constitution’s injunction to government is thatit should be acting to progressively realise these rights; or, in the case of girl children, it should be doing everything possible to fulfil these rightsThe fact that it’s not means that the inequality we lament is a political choice. It is, literally, man-made.

 

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