Gender Institute conference on Combating gender-based violence in tertiary institutions
Her Excellency Dr Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa the guest of honour at the Gender Institute conference on Combating gender-based violence that was held on the 5-6th of October 2022 at Midlands State University. Prof I. Muzvidziwa, the Executive Director of the Gender Institute at Midlands State University making her presentation at the Gender Institute conference on Combating gender-based violence in…
SRC Spearheads Fight Against GBV
Midlands State University (MSU) first year students were on Saturday 29 May 2021 capacitated with information on gender rights and gender-based violence (GBV) as a way of reducing the increasing number of domestic abuses in the country. This comes in the wake of an increase in child marriages and violence against women and girls in…
Towards Increasing Women Participation in Mining
The Midlands State University Gender Institute in partnership with the Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation (CCMT) held a gender symposium on Friday the 16th of October 2020 at the University’s Gweru Main Campus. The Symposium which ran under the theme, “The Feminisation of the Mineral Value Chain” sought to explore and strengthen women’s contribution…
Celebrating Women This March
Prof. Chipo Hungwe Professor Chipo Hungwe is an Associate Professor and the Executive Dean of Social Sciences at Midlands State University. She comes from a Christian background and is the firstborn in her family. Professor Hungwe spent most of her childhood in Bulawayo although her rural home is in Chivi, Masvingo. She went to Townsend…