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Article: Gender activists question World Cup benefits for women.(News)
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- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2009
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BYLINE: YUGENDREE NAIDOO
QUESTIONS have been raised about the extent to which women will benefit from the 2010 World Cup, with gender activists pointing to a policy vacuum when it comes to the economic empowerment of women in the organisation and running of the event.
Kubi Rama, deputy director at Gender Links, said: "So far, I am not aware of any policy that enforces a gender component, which is absolutely required as the danger of hosting events such as this is that we don't know who are empowered."
Gender Links, an NGO, has commissioned research into how women are to benefit from the World Cup.
Rama said part of the research would ...