E042 - Women's Day - Break the Bias! #WisdomPersonified

Though laws are in place for the advancement of #women. The women carry a disproportionate burden of physical work and emotional labour in the workplace and in the home. It may require South Africa to adopt the Nordic Region practices where there is shared participation in childcare, a more equitable distribution of work at home and a better work-life balance for both women and men. Women encounter difficulties in combining family and work responsibilities in a society still structured on patriarchal norms and practices. Women have feelings of obligation and commitment to others, at most times to their own detriment. Women must realise that no one is going to give them that world. They need to create it. Patriarchy is not only demonstrated in extreme actions like female genital mutilations, honour killings and Gender Based Violence (#GBV), it is a social construction that is mental, legal, economic, political and spiritual that achieves the most enduring system of domination. Gender roles and stereotypes are seen as natural and universal. If we do not tackle #patriarchy, it is almost impossible to #BreaktheBias. James Baldwin, the American writer and social critic had the right sentiment when he said: “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. #Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.” As women, do we truly want things to change? What are we willing to do or sacrifice to experience the change we want? Break the Bias! #MentoringWomen #DuduMsomi #Leadership #Empathy #Women'sDay #Leadership #WomenInLeadership #genderequality #empoweringwomen #womensrights #equality #happywomensday #womeninbusiness #womeninspiringwomen