Zenebework Tadesse (Amharic: ዘነበወርቅ ታደሰ) is an Ethiopian sociologist and activist. She is the first executive director of AAWORD.

Early life and education

Tadesse was born in Addis Ababa to a Catholic family.[1] Her father worked for the government.[1] She attended a Catholic girls' school, where she was taught by missionary priests.[1] She later studied in the USA, where she spent time in Minnesota and Indiana initially studying journalism, later switching to international relations once she realized that the lack of press freedom in Ethiopia would thwart a journalism career.[1] She moved to Chicago, where she was involved in the civil rights movement and the Black Panthers. She later moved to Harlem.[1]

Career

Tadesse is an activist and sociologist who has undertaken significant research on democracy, gender and women's land rights in Africa.[2] She has called for more financial support of women, especially with regards to access to education.[3] Tadesse is a founding member of the Ethiopian Forum for Social Sciences,[2] and the principal vice president of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences.[4][5]

In 1977, she was a founding member of the Association of African Women for Research and Development, an organization that she became the first executive director of.[2][6]

Selected publications

In 1976 she wrote a book, The Condition of Women in Ethiopia, that is held in the Rome headquarters of the FAO, but has not been publicly published.[7][8]

With Yared Amare, she wrote the paper Women's Land Rights in Ethiopia, published in 2000 in the Journal of Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (No.1 (Summer): 25-51).[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Zenebework Tadesse Oral History Content Summary (document) | Women's Learning Partnership". 2022-02-01. Archived from the original on 2022-02-01. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  2. 1 2 3 "Zenebework Tadesse | Women's Learning Partnership". 2021-11-30. Archived from the original on 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  3. ↑ "ስርዓተ ፆታ እና የትምህርት ዕድል – ዜና ከምንጩ". 2020-06-24. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  4. ↑ "How Social Norms Relate to Gender Inequality in Ethiopia | PRB". 2022-01-30. Archived from the original on 2022-01-30. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  5. ↑ "Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr celebrates 80th birthday". Ghana Business News. 2019-09-08. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  6. ↑ Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola. "The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies | , | download". u1lib.org. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  7. ↑ The Legal Status of Rural Women: Limitations on the economic participationof women in rural development. Volume 32, Issue 2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 1979. p. 21. ISBN 9251008582.
  8. ↑ Ashebir, Genet (2007). Women as Victims /perpetuators of patriarchy: A Case study of Women Vendors in Two Localities in Addis Ababa (PDF). Addis Ababa University.
  9. ↑ Land and the Challenge of Sustainable Development in Ethiopia: Conference Proceedings. (2006). United Kingdom: Forum for Social Studies. p40
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