{"id":201625,"date":"2025-07-04T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-women-still-face-barriers-to-equality-in-education-employment-and-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:56:57","slug":"zambian-women-still-face-barriers-to-equality-in-education-employment-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-women-still-face-barriers-to-equality-in-education-employment-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian Women Still Face Barriers to Equality in Education, Employment, and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Two-thirds of citizens say police and courts should do more to protect women and girls from discrimination and harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Zambia, women are less likely than men to have higher education at the secondary (39% vs. 49%) or post-secondary (6% vs. 12%) level. o Most Zambians (90%) say it is rare or unheard of for families to prioritise boys&#8217; education over girls&#8217;, but 9% say this happens frequently. o One in five citizens (20%) say schoolgirls &#8220;often&#8221; or &#8220;always&#8221; face discrimination,&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of citizens say police and courts should do more to protect women and girls from discrimination and harassment. Key findings In Zambia, women are less likely than men to have higher education at the secondary (39% vs. 49%) or post-secondary (6% vs. 12%) level. o Most Zambians (90%) say it is rare or unheard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6894,1632,7528,6030,7127,257,6916,254,6524,881,4396],"class_list":["post-201625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barriers","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-equality","tag-face","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}