{"id":239391,"date":"2026-07-24T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mozambican-women-encounter-obstacles-to-employment-education-and-public-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:22:44","slug":"mozambique-mozambican-women-encounter-obstacles-to-employment-education-and-public-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mozambican-women-encounter-obstacles-to-employment-education-and-public-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Mozambican Women Encounter Obstacles to Employment, Education, and Public Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A majority 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>Women are also less likely than men to have paid employment. Mozambicans say discriminatory hiring practices are the No. 1 barrier to women&#8217;s participation in the labour market, followed by a lack of flexible work arrangements. Only a slim majority oppose giving men priority in hiring. While more than six in 10 respondents support gender neutrality in politics, a&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230431.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of citizens say police and courts should do more to protect women and girls from discrimination and harassment. Key findings Women are also less likely than men to have paid employment. Mozambicans say discriminatory hiring practices are the No. 1 barrier to women&#8217;s participation in the labour market, followed by a lack of [&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":[654],"tags":[258,256,1632,7528,7775,8771,7751,4704,682,257,11269,5751,254,6524],"class_list":["post-239391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-encounter","tag-leadership","tag-mozambican","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-obstacles","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239391","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=239391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239391\/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=239391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}