The Way Forward towards the Emancipation of Women

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Title:	The Way Forward towards the Emancipation of Women
Author:	Horn, Patricia
Year:	1991
Periodical:	Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity
Issue:	10
Pages:	53-66
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	women feminism Cultural Roles Labor and Employment Equality and Liberation Sex Roles
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.1991.9675136
Abstract:	Any attempts to transform women's position in society must address both strategic and practical gender interests if they are to succeed in both overcoming women's immediate economic oppression and eroding the patriarchal system. Initiatives taken with this aim in mind must affect all areas of life. In order to end the oppression of women in South Africa, changes will have to be made in the following fields: the Constitution and legislation, government policy toward women and services, economic policy, social welfare and health, government and institutional structures, trade unions, the domestic sphere, and education. Organization is the key factor in the struggle for the transformation of patriarchal society. The most difficult task will be the construction of unity between feminists and all the women committed to the emancipation of women. Bibliogr., notes.