{"id":5995,"date":"2021-09-12T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping"},"modified":"2021-09-13T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:12:11","slug":"pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping","title":{"rendered":"PF Challenges Women Over Gender Ministry Scrapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE Patriotic Front (PF) has taken a swipe at the biased women groups which have remained quiet over the abolition of the Ministry of Gender by President Hakainde Hichilema.<\/p>\n

Kanchibiya Member of Parliament Sunday Chanda, and his Pambashe counterpart Ronald Chitotela said it would be important to hear from women\u2019s organisations on the abolishing, merging and realigning of the ministry.<\/p>\n

The President abolished certain ministries like Gender, National Guidance and Religious Affairs as well as the Chiefs and Traditional Affairs. Mr Chanda said on page 33 of the 2021 UPND manifesto, the ruling party recognised the lack of gender balance as one of the major challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ministry of Gender is crucial in coordinating and ensuring gender equality and equity,\u201d Mr Chanda said. He said that there was need to ensure that women\u2019s full participation in national development was complemented.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr Chitotela said that he was shocked that women\u2019s groups had gone mute over the abolishment of the Ministry of Gender. Mr Chitotela said groups like the women\u2019s lobby were very vocal during Mr Michael Sata\u2019s days but that they had toned down and had not issued any statement after the ministry being abolished.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m wondering is it just that it was Mr Sata or maybe it\u2019s strange that they have not said anything over the issue of abolishing the ministry,\u201d Mr Chitotela said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. THE Patriotic Front (PF) has taken a swipe at the biased women groups which have remained quiet over the abolition of the Ministry of Gender by President Hakainde Hichilema. Kanchibiya Member of Parliament Sunday Chanda, and his Pambashe counterpart Ronald Chitotela said it would be important to hear from women\u2019s organisations on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,2580,2579,233],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-gender","tag-national-guidance-and-religious-affairs","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nPF Challenges Women Over Gender Ministry Scrapping - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Patriotic Front (PF) has taken a swipe at the biased women groups which have remained quiet over the abolition of th ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PF Challenges Women Over Gender Ministry Scrapping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Patriotic Front (PF) has taken a swipe at the biased women groups which have remained quiet over the abolition of th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-12T23:59:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-13T00:12:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/09\/img-613e973b45e98.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"638\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PF Challenges Women Over Gender Ministry Scrapping\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-12T23:59:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-13T00:12:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/09\/img-613e973b45e98.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Gender\",\"National Guidance and Religious Affairs\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pf-challenges-women-over-gender-ministry-scrapping\",\"name\":\"PF Challenges Women Over Gender Ministry Scrapping - 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