equality of access to employment between women and men. 2. There must be equal remuneration for jobs of equal value for men and women 3. There must be transparency in recruitment, promotion and dismissal of women and combat and punish sexual harassment in the workplace. 4. Women should be guaranteed the right to paid maternity leave in both the private and public sector 5. Women in the informal sector should be protected through a system of social insurance. 6. Workers’ rights must be enshrined in the constitution. Also included here must be the recognition of women’s care as work done by women inside and outside the home. Reference is made to the Venezuelan constitution were women’s housework is quantified and allocated a value, whether women are workers at home as well as in the formal work place. Women in Zimbabwe want recognition of the work they do in the home. 7. Ratification of ILO convention 156 is key for Zimbabwe to address the gender dimensions presented by care work performed by women thus domestication and ratification of ILO convention 156 which recognises the rights of parents with children in workplace is key. 8. The constitution should outlaw all forms of child labour ENTREPRENEURIAL RIGHTS In this regard women demand 1. Access to finance from private and public institutions that recognizes women lack of access to collateral and actively promote female initiated/ owned businesses 2. Affirmative action for women to start their own businesses. 3. Recognition of micro, small and medium enterprises. There should be easier requirements for registration of these and facilitate access to markets 4. As a way to encourage entrepreneurship among rural women the state should make rural property bankable and women should be able to obtain titles for this land and be able to use it as collateral when seeking loans or finance. 5. Marriages should be in community of property so that property is equally vested in both parties. 6. Women should be able to own land in their own right/ individual capacities in all areas that is rural, urban, resettlement, farming and communal. 7. Local governments should be empowered to be able to deal with and allocate local

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