“[T]his is an extraordinary time to be a woman. … [W]e shouldn’t downplay how far we’ve come. That would do a disservice to all those who spent their lives fighting for justice. At the same time, there’s still a lot of work we need to do to improve the prospects of women and girls here and around the world.”
President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Post Beijing Challenges
Despite the measures progress, the number of Women participating in Politics and decision making in Tanzania is still low compared to that of men. Tanzania being a patriarchal society, the task of decision making is still predominantly a male task as allocated by the social system and structures that govern it. This upward improvement is […]
Women leadership needs stronger support in Zanzibar
Women’s leadership is responsibility of everybody i.e the Government, civil society and the women themselves. Similarly gender is social constructed and therefore it can be socially de-constructed for the interests of all members of society. Strategies have been high lightened for the way forward and in the process; an evaluation on the nature of the […]
Women political engagement needs stronger support
Despite the astonishing progress of women in various cadres, politics is still not one of them. All over the world, women are not given prominent roles in decision-making bodies. According to UN-Women figures, the percentage of women in parliament worldwide has doubled in the last 20 years. As of January 2021, 22 out of 193 […]