{"id":205424,"date":"2025-08-25T05:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-to-debate-landmark-bill-on-womens-unpaid-care-work\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:35:12","slug":"zimbabwe-parliament-to-debate-landmark-bill-on-womens-unpaid-care-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-to-debate-landmark-bill-on-womens-unpaid-care-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Parliament to Debate Landmark Bill On Women&#8217;s Unpaid Care Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Parliament is set to debate a landmark motion recognising unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), following sustained lobbying by the Women&#8217;s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) and its partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The proposed Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Bill seeks to formally acknowledge and address the disproportionate burden of household and care responsibilities carried by women and girls. Advocates say the move could transform gender equality and improve women&#8217;s participation in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220175.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament is set to debate a landmark motion recognising unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), following sustained lobbying by the Women&#8217;s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) and its partners. The proposed Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Bill seeks to formally acknowledge and address the disproportionate burden of household and care responsibilities carried by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7292,5732,9086,12583,257,2412,254,10393,6460,6100,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-care","tag-debate","tag-landmark","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unpaid","tag-womens","tag-work","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205424","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=205424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}