International Women’s Day highlights the importance of gender equality.
International Women’s Day: Key challenges for gender equality remain
- International Women’s Day was celebrated on 8 March.
- Experts at Stellenbosch University wrote opinion pieces.
- They focused on some of the challenges for gender equality.
The weight women carry, social norms and sexual corruption, and empathy for victims of violence. These are the issues that experts at Stellenbosch University highlighted in opinion pieces for the media in celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March. Click on the links below to read the articles as published.
- Prof Armand Bam (The weight women carry and the stories we refuse to see – Mail & Guardian)
- Prof Sope Williams (How social norms contribute to sexual corruption in South Africa – Weekend Argus)
- Prof Juliana Claassens (International Women’s Day: Revenge and more violence are not the answer – Netwerk24)*
*This article has been translated because it originally appeared in Afrikaans.
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