Sexual harassment in exchange for jobs – Niassa, Mozambique

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Sexual harassment in exchange for jobs – Niassa, Mozambique

3:27 CAT | 04 May 2016

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Civil organizations In Mozambique have been denouncing cases of sexual harassment in public and private institutions and the growing pressure to pay for jobs – in cash or kind.

Sexual harassment in exchange for employment is common practice in Niassa, and those responsible are mainly professionals working in the departments of human resources and the leaders of both public and private institutions.

The complaint comes from Antonieta dos Anjos, the nom de plume of a young woman who asks to remain anonymous, and who says that the practice is common when there is public competition for jobs.

“Regrettably, I know of several cases among colleagues and friends, and it has happened to me, too,” Antonieta says. “It happens whenever you knock on doors in search of jobs. Sometimes there is a price to be paid. As a woman, am sometimes subject to other types of requests. If the people involved are male, I have been asked for sex in exchange for employment.”

Clara Armando, president of the Forum of Women’s Organizations Niassa is alert to the situation.

“We have many young women who are qualified but cannot find jobs,” she said.

“We have to pay to get a job, and the question is, where do you get the money if you do not have a job to pay 35 to 40 thousand meticais for a post? So women are forced to submit to acts which … They have to do this in order to get a job.”

Armando says it is impossible to talk about women’s empowerment in Mozambique while such practices persist.

Source: Deutsche Welle