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When Gibson Nyikadzino looks at Zimbabwe’s 2023 election statistics, he does not see progress towards women empowerment; he sees a warning.<\/p>\n
“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,”<\/a> he says<\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/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":[258,256,7239,6030,6029,257,6378,14525,254,7232,6524,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-235576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-electoral","tag-equality","tag-gender","tag-news","tag-political","tag-sidelines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-women","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235576","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=235576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235576\/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=235576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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