@article{2015:ackson:gender_equ,
title = {Gender Equality and Labour Law: Protecting Working Mothers, Girls and Female Persons with Disabilities in Tanzania},
year = {2015},
note = {Labour law in Tanzania, deriving their legitimacy from the
Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania 1977 which prohibits
gender based discrimination and guarantees equality between men and
women, provides for well lettered women’s rights. These rights
include the right to paid maternity leave, the right to breast feeding
break, the right to flexible working hours, and the right not to work
in hazardous environment when expecting. As one would wish these
rights to be availed to all female workers in Tanzania, these rights
are inaccessible to most female workers in the unregulated informal
establishments, currently accounting for more than 70 per cent of all
women employed. Unsurprisingly, this precariousness is caused by,
among other things, the interplay between discriminatory laws such as
customary laws, traditions and customs subjecting female to male
domination leading to husbands’ reluctance to allow their wives or
girl children to advance their careers and the ultimate, competing
domestic responsibilities. Since access to the protected formal
sector, currently accommodating female at less than 30 per cent of all
workers, is tied to one’s education and mastery skills, women have
been on the periphery. This article argues that in order to realize
the Millennium Development Goal Number three geared to promoting
gender equality and empowering women by elimination of gender
disparity at all levels of education, and realize the Tanzania Vision
2025 which aims at reforming all social relations and processes
perpetuating inequality and have a well-educated society, gender
equality must be embraced and prioritized in all areas, including
protection of women by labour law.},
journal = {RiA Recht in Afrika | Law in Africa | Droit en Afrique},
pages = {17--39},
author = {Ackson, Tulia},
volume = {18},
number = {1}
}