{"id":230134,"date":"2026-04-11T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-women-push-back-against-gender-commission-scrapping-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:40:12","slug":"zimbabwe-women-push-back-against-gender-commission-scrapping-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-women-push-back-against-gender-commission-scrapping-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Women Push Back Against Gender Commission Scrapping Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Women mostly informal traders in Harare have expressed concern over proposals to scrap the Zimbabwe Gender Commission with many calling for reforms rather than outright abolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A street survey conducted by 263Chat captured a range of views from ordinary citizens highlighting concerns over gender equality, economic priorities and the effectiveness of public institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Some respondents said the Commission had performed well in the 10 years that it has existed and dissolving it would be a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100382.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>Women mostly informal traders in Harare have expressed concern over proposals to scrap the Zimbabwe Gender Commission with many calling for reforms rather than outright abolition. A street survey conducted by 263Chat captured a range of views from ordinary citizens highlighting concerns over gender equality, economic priorities and the effectiveness of public institutions. Some respondents [&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":[258,256,6274,6029,257,5212,6354,29664,254,6524,4686,421],"class_list":["post-230134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commission","tag-gender","tag-news","tag-plans","tag-push","tag-scrapping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230134","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=230134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230134\/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=230134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}