Historically, institutions of higher learning have excluded women, and this continues to this day in the physical structures, the curricula, and the institutional cultures. Women have to provide “empirical evidence” of the institutional violence and discrimination against them before Senates and Councils relented to even consider policies of inclusivity. Systemic violence is present in the classroom, committee meetings, on the sports field and in the social spaces.
Women at universities advocated for a long time for the right to maternity leave, medical aid, housing subsidies, sabbaticals and a number of rights previously only afforded to men. Sometimes people forget that these were not always part of the employment rights for women. In many institutions, the right to parental leave now includes the right to adoption leave for single women and for same-sex couples.
Patriarchal institutions such as universities, parliament and the church, feed into each other. These establishments form the barometers of society and more often than not, feed into each other. Religion and faith-based organisations play an important role in the lives of the majority of South Africans, and almost all universities have theology faculties or religious studies departments. Law professors at universities assist the lawmakers in government to write the laws.
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