It’s possible to work with and change social norms about suitable work for women.
Articles on International Workers' Day 2026
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The Kenyan government must look for ways to combine emigration with labour protections.
Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
The policy amendment has been applauded for moving towards workplace equality. But it still raises some concerns in relation to people with disabilities.
South Africa is proposing to extend labour and social protections to platform workers.
Ethnicity can be consciously adjusted in response to the risks women face in public spaces.
Doing more with less may not be sustainable for an exhausted workforce over the long term.
South Africa’s 100,000 plus coal workers need job relocation grants, skills training in renewable energy work and income support once the coal industry closes.
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Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
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Post Doctoral Fellow- Gender, International Livestock Research Institute
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Senior lecturer in Medical Education, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Fellow: Future of Work, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Brown University
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Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College