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Women’s “resistance” to traditional gendered roles performed within the family structure, has led to “new” roles of performance in relation to work, marriage and childcare.
Throughout history certain norms were created determining gender roles. Women were perceived as the primary caregiver and men dominated in the workplace. Within the home these norms were learnt and thus [...]
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Tags: autonomy, basic conditions of employment, discrimination, Employment, Family, family responsibility leave, female, feminism, Free, Gender, gendered roles, glass ceiling, Inequality, jobs, maternity leave, Policy, unequal, women, work, working world, workplace
More than a decade ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu defined Ubuntu as an ethic which is upheld by someone who ‘…has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.’ In short, he described [...]
Filed under: Africa, Asylum seekers, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, NGOs, Philosophy, Refugees, Zimbabwe, basic human right, governance, politics, poverty, ubuntu, xenophobia | Leave a Comment
Tags: Adonis Musati Project, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, asylum seeker, Department of Home Affairs, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, discrimination, ethics, Methodist Church refugee camp, mistreatment, political philosophy, politics, Refugees, ubuntu, xenophobia
If you still think that FLOSS is just something you do after you have brushed your teeth, you have not yet joined the ranks of those realising the benefits and potencial of Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).
“Free” means the software gives you “freedom”, but it is not necessarily always cost free. With FLOSS [...]
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the Kenyan election crisis
In the latest edition of Pambazuka News Firoze Manji gives an interesting perspective on the recent violent post-election clashes in Kenya, which is worth reading. What has instigated this unexpected conflict that has flared up so suddenly? Talk of ethnic cleansing and genocide raise concerns at ethnicity fuels this crisis. The key question is [...]
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Sharon Machanzi, a Peace and Governance Research Intern at DEVELOPMENT WORKS, attended the recent ETHICAL LEADERSHIP – IN AND THROUGH POLITICS CONFERENCE. Sharon shares her reflections on one of the keynote speeches…
Politicians are probably not more dishonest than the rest of us. It is just that they are in the spotlight and as such, [...]
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