09/03/2025
INTERNATIONAL WOMENâS DAY
8 March 2025
âI am a woman and a warrior. If you think I canât be both, youâve been lied to.â
- Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Letâs take a minute to acknowledge what Womenâs day is truly about. Itâs a day that we set aside to remember and appreciate the suffrage of women and their battle for liberation and equality. A movement that continues today as we work towards creating a society in which women are given equal opportunity and reproductive rights, and one that strives for the elimination of gender-based violence and abuse.
Letâs take a look at our history:
In South Africa, white women were afforded the right to vote in 1930. Black women only won this right in 1993. Women were given the right to sign legally binding contracts, register businesses, seek employment, and open bank accounts without the consent of their husbands in 1995. The dismissal of pregnant women became prohibited in 1997. Gender discrimination in employment became illegal in 2000. Equal remuneration for work of equal value became mandated in 2015.
Today, we face a persistent gender-based violence crisis in this country, with particularly alarming statistics. We still see a 32.5% gender pay gap at the monthly level for work of equal value. Women account for only 26.5% of senior management positions, while men account for 73.5%. Women also face blatant discrimination in healthcare, which fundamentally begins with substantial gaps in medical research, and manifests as delayed diagnoses, inadequate symptom management, avoidance of medical care due to mistreatment, abuse, harassment, neglect, and death.
Ladies, we clearly still have a long way to go in creating our ideal world. So LETâS KEEP FIGHTING! đ€
is a proud female-owned business, and we want to wish all of the women we know, love, and look up to, a very special International Womenâs Day.
We see you.
We love you.
We back you.
