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Urban poor women play key roles in the development of the health sector especially in issues of HIV/AIDS. Meanwhile, Zambian women have for a long time been marginalized in this sector. Women are marginalized in the sense that access to health and education facilities is not as easy for them as...

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) against girls and women is a threatening global phenomenon that seems to resonate in every aspect of life including educational settings; and in most cases the perpetrators are the men and boys while the victims are women and girls. GBV is a violation of human rights...

The vision of the National Gender Policy (NGP) was to achieve gender equity at all levels of decision making in the Zambian political economy. Institutions of higher learning occupy a very important role in the socio-economic development of Zambia and are critically affected by gender policy...

Gender violence threatens and shapes every woman's life even if she herself is not a victim. You see this in the choices women make: where they choose or are allowed to work, what events they feel safe attending, and where they walk on the street (Bunch,1992). Gender Based Violence is one of the...

Women in Zambia, like the rest of the world face a number of gender based challenges even in the sphere of employment. The law, being an important instrument to society if used well can help to protect them from such challenges. This research paper presents an evaluation of the extent to which...

Several studies that relate to gender had been concluded in the education sector in Zambia but these had usually concentrated on how to increase access and equity between girls and boys at various levels. These studies had evoked a range of explanations on how to reduce the gaps between boys and...

This study is entitled Perceptions and Practices towards Formal Education of Female children: A Case Study of Misisi and Roma townships: 2008 – 2010:OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:The general objective for carrying out this study was to assess and compare the perceptions and practices of parents in Roma...

It has been argued that gender equity in human resource management can improve efficiency and increase productivity of employees while taking into account their individual needs. Gender equity entails a situation where women and men have fair conditions for realising their full human rights and...

Background: The Zambia Women Parliamentarians Caucus (ZWPC) was established as a follow up to the SADC seminar held in Windhoek, Namibia in 1997 under the theme “Practical Gender Equality from dialogue to Action. It sought to meet the needs of women in Zambia.Methodology: Data for this study was...