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BUSINESS

South Africa’s gender pay gap leaves women behind

Just 3% of chief executives of JSE-listed companies are female

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
Nadia Mahomed – Executive Director – General Manager, Avon Justine PTY Ltd
AVON

Navigating pathways to empowerment

A reflective journey on women’s progress and Avon’s pioneering role in the last 25 years

  • Partner Content
4 min read
The PwC report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was analysed. (Oupa Nkosi)
COMPANIES ACT

In South Africa, only 5% of chief executives are women

Only 5% of chief executives are women and the gender pay gap is most pronounced in the top JSE-listed companies, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report released on…

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
The PwC report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was analysed. (Oupa Nkosi)
CORONAVIRUS

Covid causes gender gap to increase by a generation

The World Economic Forum reports it would take more than 135 years to reach global gender parity. South Africa ranks 18th, a downward curve in gender equality.

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
COVID 19

Covid steals jobs, equality from women

PwC’s Women in Work Index says governments and businesses must tackle causes of inequality

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
3 min read
Although two thirds of job losses were experienced by women, two thirds of the recipients of the R350 Covid-19 grant were men (John McCan/M&G)
COVID 19

The pandemic’s effect is gendered

Although two thirds of job losses were experienced by women, two thirds of the recipients of the R350 Covid-19 grant were men

  • Nonsikelelo Ncube
4 min read
Only 6% of the 329 chief executives at JSE listed companies are women.
COMMISSION FOR EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

White men still rule and earn more

Women and black people occupy only a few seats at the JSE table, the latest PwC report has found

  • M&G Data Desk
  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File
COVID 19

Covid-19 a ‘catalyst for closing the pay gap’

Executive directors earn 66 times the national minimum wage and are overwhelmingly white, a report by assurance, advisory and tax services company PwC has found

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
This International Women’s Day, women in Africa have a lot to celebrate.
4IR

We must continue to empower women entrepreneurs to grow Africa

If we increase the number of high-growth, women-founded startups, they can bridge the inclusivity gaps in their respective economies and societies

  • Elsie S Kanza
5 min read
The PwC report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was analysed. (Oupa Nkosi)
ANITA BOSCH

Why the gender pay gap persists

Social norms and the economic value we attach to work are among the reasons the disparity still exists

  • Lynley Donnelly
9 min read
Using AI without critical reflection widens the gap between relevance and convenience.
DIGITAL AGE

African governments leave women out of digital revolution

Despite governments having collected over $400-million to provide universal connectivity, women remain unconnected from the internet.

  • Gemma Ritchie
  • Mashadi Kekana
3 min read
Former US President George W Bush also wooed Saudi King Abdullah. Changes in the economy and politics have seen Saudi’s clout take a hefty knock
GENDER PARITY

Making the Business Case for Gender Equality

​Gender parity is both an economic and a moral imperative

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
The crux of the issue, says senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand Lumkile Mondi, is how to hold the government accountable.
BBC
Video

BBC China editor quits in equal pay protest

Carrie Gracie said she resigned last week over a "crisis of trust" which has engulfed the BBC.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read