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Title: | The Women's Struggle for Equality during South Africa's Transition to Democracy |
Author: | Meintjes, Sheila |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 30 |
Pages: | 47-64 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | equal opportunity women law Women's Issues Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Equality and Liberation Ethnic and Race Relations organizations |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/293/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | The inclusion of 'women' as a category along with race in the 1993 Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa was the result of challenges made by women's organizations to the constitutional negotiating process over the previous two years. This paper charts that process, and critically examines its successes and failures. It begins with an evaluation of the nature of women's political organization in the past, and the issues and demands which formed the basis of women's political involvement in order to provide the context within which post-1990 initiatives occurred. It then focuses on the role of the Women's National Coalition (WNC), launched in 1992, in drawing up a Women's Charter of equality. Finally, it suggests how far real equality can be achieved in South Africa in the future. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |