Zimbabwe: Gender Equality Without Political Will – Inside Zimbabwe’s Electoral System That Still Sidelines Women

When Gibson Nyikadzino looks at Zimbabwe’s 2023 election statistics, he does not see progress towards women empowerment; he sees a warning.

“In 2018, we had at least four women who contested as presidential candidates. In 2023, we only had one… “That alone tells you that something is restricting women from fully participating,” he says

For Nyikadzino, the decline in the number of women contesting in the presidential elections is not incidental. It reflects what he describes as “systemic barriers…