/ 21 September 2002

Labour market inequalities

OCCUPATIONAL LEVEL % BLACK FEMALE DISABILITY

Top management 12,6 12,5 1,2

Senior management 18,4 21 1,1

Professionals, specialists and middle management 44 43,1 0,9

Skilled technical, academically qualified 56,4 40 0,8

Semi-skilled 82,2 38,6 1

Unskilled 98 28,6 1

Given these inequities the government would like the following targets to be met for beneficiaries of learnerships and other skills programmes: l 85% to be black l 54% to be female l 4% to be people with disabilities

Source: Department of Labour