education and the public service, inroads have already been made to advance the status of women. 12.3 Government, through ZIMSTAT, has already started to compile Gender Disaggregated Data (GDD) to facilitate the monitoring of the situation of women in Zimbabwe. These efforts, however, still need to be extended to all sectors of society to ensure that a clear picture of the situation of women is adequately portrayed in official statistics. 12.4 Despite these significant efforts to promote the rights of women, this report has demonstrated that a lot more still needs to be done to enhance the status of women and improve their quality of life in general. Gender inequalities and imbalances continue to manifest themselves in several sectors. In politics and decision-making women continue to lag behind their male counterparts, despite the commitment of Government. Women have consistently owned less than 20% of land since 1980 despite efforts through legislative and administrative measures to ensure that women and men have equal and/or equitable access to control over and ownership of land over the years. Furthermore, women continue to bear the brunt of the HIV pandemic. They not only continue to be disproportionately infected by the virus, but they also bear the brunt of the impact of the HIV epidemic as they carry a disproportionate share of the burden of caring for their ill relatives and those sick members of the community through home based care. All this is done with little or no remuneration. Women and girls constitute the majority of the victims of gender and domestic violence and sexual abuse. 12.5 It is in recognition of the need for continued and sustained efforts to address these and many other forms of discrimination against women that Government has revised the 2004 National Gender Policy, the National Gender-Based Violence Strategy, the National Page | 102