In this article, the questions arises whether or not women truly have been able to gain power in African countries. It recognizes that in the past twelve months, two African women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and women who became the first female chief prosecutor and chair in the countries of Gambia and South Africa. Even the country of Rwanda has the highest number of female parlimentarians in the world. Of course this may all seem fine and great but in reality the women are still seen as no comparison to men and are not allowed to hold their ground, therefore they are still unequal. Proof is shown by the Global Gender Gap studies which shows although these women are succeeding, less than 1 in 4 managers, legislators or senior officals are women in most African countries. Females still lack in education in Africa and in fact Sub Saharan Africa is the most unequal region in the world. A debate has risen to see, what has really changed. There is still a large gap in the literacy rate within many countries. Out of the 30 countries, 23 of them are in Africa. The question is "what barriers remain for women with leadership ambitions?" I believe that it is the fact that since society seems that it has always been dominated by men for centuries, it is hard for women to climb our of the gender role without some men being there to knock them down. In order to break the barrier, more women need to work together to make themselves heard and support each other in the struggle. They plan on havinga debate which will include key leaders in society to come across what they think should be done in orde to bring about this enquality. I think that how society is slowly changing should be a reason why the gender normalities can and should be broken.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yly93
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