President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet has approved the publication of the Green Paper on Marriages for public consultation. The Green Paper aims to work towards the…
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VICTORY FOR 400,000 SA BLACK WOMEN AS MARITAL LAW RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The high court found in favour of the applicants and declared that the act discriminated against black persons married before 1988, in particular, black women.
COVID-19 and the Pivotal role of Grandparents
Feminist Economics, the highly ranked journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics, released a double special issue that examines the gendered dimensions and effects of a pandemic now entering its second year and still dominating headlines and lives.
Impossible choices for low-income essential workers with young children
With the reopening of schools last week, and as debates about the safety and concerns of teachers and pupils continue, we reflect on how caregiving during the pandemic has deepened inequalities for low-income employed mothers and essential workers who care for children.
Symposium on Childcare at Transforming Care Conference
I will be hosting a symposium at the upcoming Transforming Care Virtual Conference. This symposium examines the state’s response to the care for young children during the pandemic and the implications for challenging ‘gendered’ assumptions and responsibilities around paid and unpaid care work. It looks at case studies across the Globe (UK, South Africa, Brazil and Italy) to explore the ways in which the pandemic changes or reinscribes traditional patterns of care for young children.
Adding insult to injury: When you’re a womxn and a caregiver, you’re not a citizen
By denying womxn access to the Covid-19 social relief grant when they are also receiving child support grants for the children in their care, the state is making its position clear: Womxn’s roles are firmly located in the family and it’s acceptable for their rights to go there to die.
Covid-19 emergency child support grants need flexibility to accommodate fluid caregiving
Covid-19 emergency relief child support grants are tied to a ‘primary caregiver’ model of childcare. But in South Africa, where family relations are often fluid and childcare…
Sidla imbuya ngothi (We are very poor): Child Support Grants and Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic will deepen existing glaring racial disparities among children. We know already that children’s access to resources varies dramatically by race.
Family dynamics in multi-generational households during Covid-19
How do multi-generational families adjust when Covid-19 enters a household through illness or economic loss? How are patterns of care and financial support transformed and what conflicts emerge?
Women-headed households and Covid-19
In the second instalment of a three-part series, Elena Moore looks at multi-generational households headed by women in employment. The first article examined the possible impact of Covid-19 on old age grant-receiving households. If disease enters a household, it will have different impacts depending on the family, family assets, levels of domestic violence and levels of poverty.