Women still marginalized in healthcare: Nurses union
Updated | By Neo Motloung
The Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union (YNITU) says even though women dominate the health sector they remain marginalized.
YNITU’s Fikile Dikolomeloa Lengene says where women are in a majority, they are marginalized in terms of their economic involvement and decision making.
“We don’t know if is the sexist norms that come prehistorically with care, when people look at care, it is an extension of domestic work,” says Lengene.
Lengene was speaking on the backdrop of Oxfam’s 6th inequality report entitled ‘Time To Care’.
The report reveals the world’s 2153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.5 billion people who make up 60% of the planets population.
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Oxfam also reveals 22 richest men in the world have more wealth than all the women in Africa.
Lengene adds women in the labour space still find themselves fighting the sexist norms that is in their nature to care of households without compensation.
“Forgetting the fundamental that we use science most of the time to use that care.”
YNITU believes women should be included in decision making, especially in spaces that affects them directly.
Lengene says women can not only to be policy implementer.
“Women need to be during the planning, women need to be in the research, need to be there to drive the issues that are there. So they can actually align themselves with the policies that are there.”
Listen to Lengene below:
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