FEMALE EMPOWERNMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

Women is the backbone of our communities
The need for women empowerment is huge!!!
 
Rural women, who constitute one-fourth of the world's population, continue to face more difficulty than men in accessing public services, social protection, employment and markets, due to cultural norms, security issues and lack of identification documents.

“Rural women account for a great proportion of the world's agricultural labour force, produce the majority of food grown, especially in subsistence farming, and perform most of the unpaid care work in rural areas.” –according to the United Nations.
We continue to underestimate the value of women in Argriculture and development in our growing environment.

Women are the backbone of all systems in South Africa. Women are getting more value in the economic sector, they are getting more jobs and becoming the breadwinner in most household thanks to practices like women empowerment and BEE.
“Rural women typically work longer hours than men - they also have domestic and child care responsibilities. In Benin and Tanzania, women are said to work 17.4 and 14 hours more than men per week, respectively.”

What we seem to look over is the fact that women are getting more involved in the capital sector in the land while still being the caretakers at home. Women go to work 5 – 9 then get back home and make food for the family, take care of the children and do general housework. In most instances the man also works but after work he is too tired to help around the house and the daily chore falls to the woman.
"Women living in urban areas have started to delegate activities after work that has led to job development in aspects like childcare, homecare and cooking however rural women stil struggle with maintaining a full time job and being a homemaker.

What is troublesome is the fact that woman still earns less money than the men in the same job description. If you look at the distribution of salaries between men and women you will see that men earn substantially more than women.

Rural Women and the Millennium Development Goals", show that men's average wages are higher than women's in both rural and urban areas.

Women have been fighing for equality for yea and it’s sad to see that till today the women is still being treated as if theyare not eligable to pay as much as their male counterparts.
Women have been discriminated against for a very long time and given the opportunity can surpass their male counterparts.

It is time that people especially woman get rewarded for their work and not based on their sex.   
A strong emphasis needs to be put on empowering women, with the aim of bringing an end to genderalisation worldwide