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EDITORIAL:

‘Girls in policy’: challenges for the education sector:
JACKIE KIRK and STEPHANIE GARROW discuss the Girls Education Movement (GEM) in Uganda as an example of an initiative, which has potential to support girls’ active involvement, and raise issues that such an initiative may have to address as it develops.

Protecting girlhood? Virginity revivals in the era of AIDS:
SUZANNE LECLERC-MADLALA discusses the revival of social interest in virginity as it is currently being promoted through regimes of pledging, testing, and publicly asserting virgin status.

Childish images. The gendered depiction of childhood in popular South African magazines:
JEANNE PRINSLOO looks at the way advertisements in South African magazines construct childhood along the gendered lines.

Children are children: gender doesn’t matter:
Assumptions about gender and young children influence teaching decisions and actions, writes DEEVIA BHANA.

‘In the best interests of the child’:
thoughts on the Draft Children’s Bill from a gendered perspective JOHANNA KEHLER examines the South African Draft Children’s Bill to be tabled in Parliament for debate and passaging this year.

Rape, gender and the justice system:
The criminal justice system, as it presently operates, has in-built gender discrimination. Awareness, training and investments are urgently needed to avoid the secondary trauma that girls - and boys - who are victims of abuse routinely suffer. DEBORAH EWING discusses the gender equity issues arising from a recently concluded case of child rape.

Exposed to risk: girls and boys living on the streets:
SHIRIN MOTALA and TERENCE SMITH report on a study conducted with a group of street children in Durban, KwaZulu Natal and write that while there are certain gender differences in the lived experiences of boys and girls on the street, in the main their experiences of life on the street are largely similar.

The heart of the matter:
CAROL THOMSON writes of the issues she confronted when she adopts a child – racism, what is means to be white, and what it means to be a mother.

Teen pregnancy and the abuse of the Child Support Grant. Addressing the myths and the stereotypes:
BETH GOLDBLATT looks at the myths and the stereotypes around women and welfare in South Africa.

The relationship between child abuse and poverty:
CAROL BOWER writes that although poverty does not cause child abuse, living in deep poverty increases the vulnerability of children to abuse and neglect.

‘She could stay at home and make herself a sandwich’:
the effects of an anti-bias programme on gender bias among pre-school teachers and children LINDA BIERSTEKER and BERYL HERMANUS report on the Early Learning Resource Unit’s anti bias education programme in pre-schools and the effect it has had on teachers and children.

Limitation of the Child Support Grant for women and children:
a case study of Northdale DESIREE MANICOM and RENAY PILLAY write that the child support grants is not providing adequate support to a significant number of women and children who are in need.

INBRIEF:


 
Sex work: a community speaks
There have been increasing reports in the media about the issue of prostitution in Chatsworth, an Indian township south of central Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. SHAREN THUMBOO spoke to community members, to find out what they thought of the issue.