/ 25 August 2022

Women’s job crisis fix found in the public purse

Mining Community Protests Over Lack Of Food And Jobs In Rustenburg In South Africa
Data released by Statistics South Africa this week shows the unemployment rate fell to 33.9%, bucking expectations that the jobless level would tick up amid the second-quarter economic headwinds. (Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
Nearly half of South African women are left out of the country’s labour force — and gender-friendly budgeting could fix that

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