| Samenvatting: | Laeticia Mukurasi was one of the 15000 workers made redundant in Tanzania in 1985, as a result of intervention from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. But in the large state- owned company for which she worked, she was the only woman among seven toplevel managers, and the only person actually dismissed. She dicided to fight the decision on grounds of sex discrimination.
Post Abolished is the telling and vivid narrative of her courageous campaigne for reinstatement, the first case of its kind in Tanzania. It raises questions about equal opportunities policy relevant not only in developing countries, but world-wide. Legislation, she found, is not enough, even in a exeptionally progressive legal system. She needed the support of her trade union, and of the courts. And that support had to be won. Institutions,she foud, are staffed by individuals, most of them men, brought up in old patriarchal traditons. They make assumptions about women's roles and men's rights to authority; and react within unseen alliances between public office and family structures.
This is a historically immensely important case study essential reading to all involved with problems of economic and political development, of women's rights, employment law and family law, trade union practice and labour relations. |
| Trefwoorden: | Tanzania, vrouwen, arbeidsrecht, vooroordelen, wetgeving, vakbonden, economie, patriarchaat, familierecht, |