In Zimbabwe, horrific numbers of sextortion victims have surfaced. Reports show that more than 57% of women have been forced to exchange sex for employment, medical care, and even when attempting to enroll their children at school. The report, entitled Gender and Corruption, revealed that sextortion is the most prevalent form of non-monetary bribery in Zimbabwe; the increasing numbers of incidents are blamed on Zimbabwe’s deteriorating economy. The report stated: \u201cAt times you get asked for sexual favours in return for tenders or business. What makes the situation difficult, especially for state contracts, is how women in business are perceived by men in control of these processes. When they see a woman, for most of them sex is the first thing that comes to their mind. Hence women are sexualised and seen as sex-preneurs rather than entrepreneurs…\u201d. It was also found that women are commonly found to be vulnerable to sexual abuse when attempting to purchase land for residential or business purposes. Women have even been faced with sextortion when attempting to get government tenders. The core of the problem being the way women are viewed by men who are in any position of power; women have claimed that they feel that instead of being viewed as entreprenuers, they are viewed as \u201csex-prenuers\u201d.\u00a0 Women in Zimbabwe specifically have also claimed to fear seeking help from the police, many describing situations where the police would refuse to help them unless they received some form of “payment\u201d. Unfortunately, this issue is not only faced in Zimbabwe, and is described to be a world-wide phenomenon that has degraded womens public image and lowered their confidence in themselves, and in the business world. I believe that these women have been suffering for too long; basic rights such as owning home and property if economically capable that should be guaranteed to all peoples are being stripped from them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Zimbabwe, horrific numbers of sextortion victims have surfaced. Reports show that more than 57% of women have been forced to exchange sex for employment, medical care, and even when attempting to enroll their children at school. The report, entitled Gender and Corruption, revealed that sextortion is the most prevalent form of non-monetary bribery in Zimbabwe; the increasing numbers of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}