Women and Gender Equality Bill in South Africa
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The Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill (WEGE) aimed to promote equality between men and women in South Africa. The bill was passed in 2013, and allowed for the implementation of measures to increase equality, such as designing programs to ensure women held fifty percent representation in decision-making structures.[1] The bill provides for both social and economic challenges to running for office, and makes provisions for enforcement.[1] While the bill has faced some criticism that it offers nothing new to the nation,[2] overall it was supported and passed through both houses of the national legislature, and went into effect in 2014.