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Title: | 'Threads of Solidarity' Revisited: Gender Forums as Important Sites for Contesting Gender Inequality |
Author: | Dlamini, Armstrong |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 55 |
Pages: | 96-112 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | empowerment women workers trade unions women Women's Issues Law, Human Rights and Violence Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Equality and Liberation |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/181231 |
Abstract: | Based on findings from a survey conducted in 2002 on women's participation in trade unions in South Africa, notably in the textile, clothing and footwear sector, the author highlights some of the attempts made by women trade unionists to close the representation gap between men and women as well as to ensure that the makeup of trade union decisionmaking structures corresponds to the demographic pattern of trade union membership. Women's efforts were operationalized through networking and by mobilizing solidarity through gender forums. The gender forums addressed issues that affected women both within and outside the workplace. Workplace issues included employment equity, skills development, sexual harassment, violence against women, occupational health, HIV/AIDS and gender mainstreaming. The gender forums emerged as the most common mode of organizing women and as a potential location for weaving new 'threads of solidarity' among women as well as for contesting patriarchy. Bibliogr., ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |