Browsing by Subject "women"
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A voice from the margins: investigating the African adventist rationale on the quest for female ordination
(AOSIS, 2016)Discussions surrounding women's ordination reached a peak with the 60th General Conference Session (GCS 2015) of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church. A report compiled by a section of delegates from the East-Central ... -
Awareness campaigns as survival tools in the fight against gender-based violence in peri-urban communities of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2013)Most of Zimbabwe’s urban settlements owe their existence to mining activities; hence most peri-urban communities around Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, are mining communities. However, research in these mining ... -
Doing gender is unavoidable: Women’s participation in the core activities of the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1938-1943
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013)Afrikaner women played a major role in the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) movement in South Africa from 1939 to 1954. Women participated in a range of activities as part of the OB Women's Division. As an organisation born out of ... -
Exploring the role of women in Botswana family-owned businesses
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)This study provides an insight into how family-owned businesses in Botswana can become more competitive by creating an environment that encourages women to start businesses, retain them in the business, and make them more ... -
Finding innovative solutions to extend labour law and social protection to vulnerable workers in the informal economy
(North-West University, 2018)The world of work has changed and this includes its fundamental design, purpose and coverage of employment. Work in the informal economy has increased and in many developing and middle income countries, work in the informal ... -
Indigenous communication: socio-economic characteristics influencing contemporary female political participation
(Digital Commons, 2017)This paper takes into account the exceptionality of the socio-economic characteristics (age, income, education, marital status, occupation) of female participation in politics through the use of indigenous communication. ... -
Investigating the reasons for a lack of women in leadership positions in selected male dominated companies in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa), 2018)South African companies are steadily progressing towards the implementation of gender equality in the workplace, however, the existence of stereotypes and stigmatisation in the broader society, and more often in the working ... -
An investigation of challenges faced by women in a male dominated heavy metal manufacturing industry in South Gauteng
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)In South Africa, women comprise more than half of the population, but only 44,3% are employed in the workforce and they mostly occupy lower-level positions. The main objective of this study was to investigate the challenges ... -
Job insecurity as a predictor of physiological indicators of health in healthy working women: an extension of previous research
(Wiley, 2012)Job insecurity has been linked to different negative outcomes, such as negative work attitudes and health problems, with most studies including self-reported outcomes. Extending earlier research, the present study includes ... -
"Kan die vrou haar volk dien deur haar huis?": Afrikanerpolitiek en vrou in die Ossewa-Brandwag, 1942 tot 1954
(University of the Free State, 2015)The “Ossewa-Brandwag” (OB or Oxwagon Sentinel) was a mass-movement of Afrikaners following a non-party political strategy in order to gain power in a white dominated South Africa. The organisation, which gained its highest ...