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GBVH is a power relations issue

In Lesotho’s garment factories, hiring, contracts and overtime could be used to perpetrate GBVH. Supervisors stopped when an independent body held them to account.

4 weeks ago

What makes a workplace policy real?

by Nina Benjamin collective agreements / garment manufacturing / gender based violence and harassment / gender equality / organisation and representation

Anti-GBVH programme in Lesotho’s garment sector shows what it takes to make policies trusted, usable and enforceable in the workplace.

1 month ago

A woman’s work should not be something she has to prove

by Nelly Nyagah care economy / decent work / gender equality / organisation and representation / Women’s Day

Whose work is recognised, recorded, and rewarded? Seventy years after the 1956 march, the answer depends on where a woman works.

1 month ago

10 demands to table in equity bargaining

by Nelly Nyagah collective bargaining / equity bargaining / gender equality / organisation and representation

Ten proposals, with the legal basis for each, to advance gender equality in the world of work.

3 months ago

The green light never stays green

by Yonela Mbubu advocacy stories / care work / decent work / early childhood development practitioners / education sector / expanded public works programme / gender equality

Yonela Mbubu sees a care worker’s life as a robot: red while you wait for work, green when a door opens, then the cracks. Still, she dreams and evolves.

4 months ago

A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure

by Unity Moganedi care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / workers’ rights

A son reflects on his mother’s 20-year career as a Community Health Worker and the implications of her retiring without a pension or recognition.

4 months ago

A Day in the life of an ECD Practitioner

by Francina Kubjane advocacy stories / care work / decent work / early childhood development practitioners / education sector / expanded public works programme / gender equality

In rural Ga-Mailula, ECD practitioner Francina Kubjane turns a humble day care centre into a place of belonging and excellence.

5 months ago

The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers

by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / workers’ rights

A nation that claims dignity as a founding value cannot continue denying it to the care workers who sustain its capacity to care.

5 months ago

Care Workers Day is a feminist labour movement

by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality

What would it mean to build a system in which the ethics of care shape the conditions of work itself?

5 months ago

How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers

by Nina Benjamin care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights

Community Health Workers won permanent employment in court – then the state rewrote the rules. Our analysis tracks how a landmark victory became a new form of exclusion.

Tag: gender equality

GBVH is a power relations issue

What makes a workplace policy real?

A woman’s work should not be something she has to prove

10 demands to table in equity bargaining

The green light never stays green

A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure

A Day in the life of an ECD Practitioner

The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers

Care Workers Day is a feminist labour movement

How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers

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