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Title: | The Right to Organise as Mother of All Rights: The Experience of Women in Tanzania |
Authors: | Tenga, Nakazael Peter, Chris Maina |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 143-162 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | freedom of association women feminism Women's Issues Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence organizations Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Marital Relations and Nuptiality Status of Women |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161742 |
Abstract: | In Tanzania the right to organize and to associate was not guaranteed under the law until the 1977 Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania was amended in 1984 to include, inter alia, a Bill of Rights. The present article deals with the organization of women in Tanzania during the first three decades of independence. A review of the role of women in the struggle for independence is followed by a discussion of the achievements of the national women's organization, UWT (Umoja wa Wanawake wa Tanganyika), which was founded in 1962 as a branch of the ruling party, CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi). Despite the limited room available for manoeuvre in the Tanzanian political system, the UWT managed to record the following achievements: the 1971 Law of Marriage Act, paid maternity leave, and university entry for women immediately after completion of their national service. The last section of the article discusses changes since the introduction of the multiparty system in Tanzania in 1992, especially the creation of women's wings within the new parties, and the establishment of a Women's Council, the Baraza la Wanawake Tanzania (Bawata) in 1995. Notes, ref. |