“As a student and a woman from a country (Zimbabwe) and continent with significant levels of inequality, I am very familiar with the pervasiveness of gender imbalance – and the devastating consequences it has especially on women,” says second-year MPA student Sikhathele Nkala. Like most countries in Africa, Zimbabwe has adopted progressive legislation in recent years to address these gender imbalances. Despite this, Nkala says that the day-to-day experiences of women demonstrate that gender inequality and exclusion of women’s concerns and priorities in policy making is pervasive.
