The Zimbabwe Women's Bureau (ZWB) is a Zimbabwean women's NGO established in 1978.[1]

ZWB started as an effort by black Rhodesian academics, activists and businesswomen to "raise the awareness of women in the country, especially black women".[2] To escape censorship by the Rhodesian Front, ZWB used churches as meeting places, portraying their activity as prayer groups. After independence, their survey of women's perspectives was published as a book, We Carry A Heavy Load.[1] As a branch of the National Farmer's Association of Zimbabwe, the Women's Bureau sponsored workshops and training sessions for women farmers.[2]

Publications

  • Black Women in Zimbabwe. Harare, June 1980
  • Kate McCalman, We Carry a Heavy Load: Rural Women in Zimbabwe Speak Out. Harare: Zimbabwe Women's Bureau, 1981
  • We Carry a Heavy Load, Part II. Harare: Zimbabwe Women's Bureau, 1992

References

  1. 1 2 Sylvester, Christine (2002). Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey. Cambridge University Press. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-0-521-79627-9.
  2. 1 2 Kathleen E. Sheldon (2005). "Zimbabwe Women's Bureau". Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-8108-5331-7.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.