{"id":236176,"date":"2026-06-13T05:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-how-safe-markets-are-supporting-women-led-businesses-and-reducing-violence-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:37:40","slug":"zimbabwe-how-safe-markets-are-supporting-women-led-businesses-and-reducing-violence-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-how-safe-markets-are-supporting-women-led-businesses-and-reducing-violence-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: How Safe Markets Are Supporting Women-Led Businesses and Reducing Violence in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\"><em>HARARE, Zimbabwe &#8211;<\/em> Women&#8217;s participation in the workforce has the potential to benefit individuals, families and communities. Yet many women are forced to work in unsafe conditions or face difficult choices between earning an income and caring for their children. Safe Markets are designed to address these challenges by supporting women&#8217;s economic empowerment, leadership and security through public spaces that meet their needs and reduce their vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120235.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>HARARE, Zimbabwe &#8211; Women&#8217;s participation in the workforce has the potential to benefit individuals, families and communities. Yet many women are forced to work in unsafe conditions or face difficult choices between earning an income and caring for their children. Safe Markets are designed to address these challenges by supporting women&#8217;s economic empowerment, leadership and [&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":[258,256,6817,5221,257,8844,6803,254,8748,2148,44528,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businesses","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-reducing","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supporting","tag-violence","tag-womenled","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236176","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=236176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236176\/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=236176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}