Advocating for Quota System as a Model for Women's Participation in Political Affairs in Southern Africa: The case of Zimbabwe

Advocating for Quota System as a Model for Women's Participation in Political Affairs in Southern Africa: The case of Zimbabwe

Menard Musendekwa
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0102-9.ch007
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Abstract

Despite the advent of gender-based policies and initiatives that have tended to dominate the participatory discourse both nationally and internationally, the literature on women and gender emphasises the slow pace of transition and development (Mapuva 2013). Severe decline of women participation in political affairs in Zimbabwe since 2008 may be indicators that women are continually drifting into the margins as far as politics is concerned. This research proposes that advocacy full implementation of Quota System (QS) may increase women participation in political affairs .The research is a historical reflection of advocacy towards women participation in political affairs in Zimbabwe as the case for Southern Africa.
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Theoretical Considerations

The research applies The Structural Violence Approach (SVA). SVA is a methodology that focuses on how social factors such as poverty, peer pressure, gender inequality, and economic hardships, along with social structures like politics, religion, the economy, culture, and tradition, limit, harm, and shape people in society (Galtung, 1969). In a similar vein, Ho (2007) argues that structural violence demonstrates how systemic injustices routinely deny certain people access to fundamental necessities and human rights. The research focuses on gender imbalances in politics that have stimulated the development and application of policies that may address those imbalances.

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