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QRATE's Voices: The Beginners Guide to Gender Equality

By Mangaliso Ngomane When this all blows over you will have picked up a host of new habits if you have been following QRATE on Social Media and the recent #TogetherAtHome campaign, you'll definitely gain some new skills.  Today let's talk a bit about equality. What is equality? Equality is the state of being equal, especially in status, rights or opportunities.  Qrate, for example, aims to promote equality through various programmes with a focus, particularly on gender. If you believe in gender equality then believe it or not: YOU are a feminist. Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash I am Mangaliso Ngomane. And I am a Feminist. Forget what you've heard, men can also be feminists because all that Feminism is simply is a belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. This theory extends to the political, economic and social equality of the sexes. Gender equality means that the different behaviours, aspirations, and needs of wo