Breaking Barriers - Zimbabwean Welder Farakeza Challenges Gender Stereotypes
- Author:
- Jerry Chifamba
- Publisher:
- allAfrica.com
- Publication Date:
- 17 March 2023
- Tags:
- Zimbabwe, Education, Human Rights, Labour, Women and Gender
The Covid-19 pandemic has hastened generational shifts as even more women enter previously male-dominated fields. In Harare, Zimbabwe, women like 23-year-old Ashley Farakeza face a number of barriers to their education - poverty, child marriage, and strict gender roles. In fact, child marriage remains widespread in Zimbabwe, with one woman out of three married before the age of 18.
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