Status of young women in southern africa

>We can agree that for some of us when we ask ourselves what is women empowerment? The answer that quickly rushes to mind is how we actually measure levels of women empowerment in our mindsets. We begin to ask ourselves how many women occupy seats in Parliament. Another measure would be whether the status of women in marriages has been elevated, are they not facing any cultural injustices that culminate in abuse from their in-laws and have appropriate legal and administrative rights been put in place to ensure that women are treated as equal partners in marriage and other statistics of that nature. We can clearly note that the needs of these women are different from the average 40 or 50 year old woman but this has not been taken into consideration. Why am I saying this, at the same time when all these things are happening and women are climbing up the political ladder slowly things like rape of young women are still on the increase, not enough young girls are getting proper access to sanitary wear, young girls are unemployed they are being taken advantage of their bad situations and being abused and trafficked from one place to another. Most of them are not going to school and all their voices are seemingly silent cries hence the need for regulatory set of rules that focuses particularly on making sure the rights of young women particularly are observed