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The '''Zimbabwe Women's Bureau''' ('''ZWB''') is a Zimbabwean women's [[NGO]] established in 1978.<ref name="Sylvester2002">{{cite book|last=Sylvester|first=Christine|title=Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHnlEO5x3PcC&pg=PA238|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-79627-9|pages=238–}}</ref>
ZWB started as an effort by black [[Rhodesian]] academics, activists and businesswomen to "raise the awareness of women in the country, especially black women".<ref name="Sheldon2005"/> To escape censorship by the [[Rhodesian Front]], ZWB used churches as meeting places, portraying their activity as prayer groups. After independence, their survey of women's perspectives was published as a book, ''We Carry A Heavy Load''.<ref name="Sylvester2002"/> As a branch of the National Farmer's Association of Zimbabwe, the Women's Bureau sponsored workshops and training sessions for women farmers.<ref name="Sheldon2005">{{cite book|author=Kathleen E. Sheldon|title=Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36BViNOAu3sC&pg=PA275|year=2005|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5331-7|page=275|chapter=Zimbabwe Women's Bureau}}</ref>
==Publications==
* ''Black Women in Zimbabwe''. Harare, June 1980
* Kate McCalman, ''We Carry a Heavy Load: Rural Women in Zimbabwe Speak Out''. Harare: Zimbabwe Women's Bureau, 1981
* ''We Carry a Heavy Load, Part II''. Harare: Zimbabwe Women's Bureau, 1992
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.zwbonline.org/ Zimbabwe Women's Bureau website]
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[[Category:Agricultural organisations based in Zimbabwe]]
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