The team convened a High Tea for the girls with the girls where they are tackling issues affecting the girl child and also sharing milestones achieved in empowering girls in all their diversities. #IDG2022 #GirlsGetEqual #EqualPowerNow

EQUALITY

Well done for showing women can do it!

Gender stereotypes inform appointments with women allocated traditionally female roles. Yet gender roles by definition, can change. Deconstruction of sexist socializations means women can take up any roles and vice versa! Diversity demands women's inclusion #womenleaderswz

Women are leaders @ home, communities. They take leadership for welfare of families, communities and country during crises and or policy failures e.g. maround to pool much needed resources, home based care, production of masks; sanitisers, SDC #womenleaderszw

Men should be accountable to the constitution, male leaders should take leadership for upholding our laws. Men should acknowledge that women leadership reduces pressure & expectations for them to deliver as responsibilities are shared! #womenleaderszw

Leadership is not just in politics we need to cele rate women community leaders. And demand equal representation in appointed positions.

Women also need to reject the system which ignores agreed code of conduct. #womenleaderszw

We need to call out sexist behaviours regardless by whom, be each other's keeper despite our differences and refuse to be used by men for their own purposes! #womenleaderszw

Women need to know their rights, demand those rights and continue until they are heard. Their voices should be loud, choices clear and demand for control of their destiny non negotiable #womenleaderszw

@womensvoicezw @ginnyvee1 @Chimhau3 @WinnetChitauro @SHDFZim @GenderZimbabwe @MemoryMushore @IthembaGirls @hifczimbabwe @gcezimbabwe @MACRADTrust Gender plays a significant role in defining leadership roles and is a barrier to women taking up these leadership roles. #womenleaderszw @SHDFZim @WalpeAcademy @Act4Zw @namataik_ @womensvoicezw @MACRADTrust @GenderZimbabwe

So is education alone enough? Zimbabwe has highly educated women. @#womenleaderszw

Is it jealousy or competitiveness which is what we advocate? And are men not jealous of each other anx pf women #womenleaderszw

@womensvoicezw @ginnyvee1 @Chimhau3 @WinnetChitauro @SHDFZim @GenderZimbabwe @MemoryMushore @IthembaGirls @hifczimbabwe @gcezimbabwe @MACRADTrust Conservativism. I mean our societies have been cultured to believe man are 'heads' to use the biblical term. Until the day we have a great psychological shift that first recognise a woman as a human first we may continue having this tragic problem

@womensvoicezw @ginnyvee1 @Chimhau3 @WinnetChitauro @SHDFZim @GenderZimbabwe @MemoryMushore @IthembaGirls @hifczimbabwe @gcezimbabwe @MACRADTrust Many people associate leadership behaviors with agentic behaviors, which are associated with stereotypical masculine traits such as assertiveness, aggression, competitiveness, dominance, independence and self-reliance.

@womensvoicezw @ginnyvee1 @Chimhau3 @WinnetChitauro @SHDFZim @GenderZimbabwe @MemoryMushore @IthembaGirls @hifczimbabwe @gcezimbabwe @MACRADTrust Socialisation and our culture plays a big role and at times its the intimidation and fear women receive when they try or want to take up a leadership position.

This cannot go on! @WiPSUZim @walpe @WCOZIMBABWE @EverjoiceWin @ZimWomenLawyers @GenderLinks @GMCZimbabwe @GenderProtocol @RozariaConnects @unwomenzw @SADC_News @AU

Thanks EJ for calling out the predators. Women can't breathe!

By raising awareness, encouraging survivirs to speak, directly responding as relevant and for longer term, advocating policy & practice changes in line with constitution #Innovatinginendinggbv

True. Reminding colleagues to share with @GenderZimbabwe as we are not a front line responder. We need to address systemic GBV by making institutions responsive. That will build women's confidence in the law.