How to claw back gains of women’s empowerment: Social and economic restrictions for the women of South Africa stubbornly remain
in defiance against the extension of pass laws that would further restrict the social and economic freedom of movement of most women in South Africa.
These laws are an ugly relic from an ugly past, but social and economic restrictions for the women of South Africa stubbornly remain present. The advances made since 1994 towards women’s empowerment are now threatened by the spectre of unemployment. Of the 7.8-million unemployed people in South Africa, 36.8% are women. The unemployment rate among men stands at 32.4%. national lockdown, which came into effect early last year, forced an almost-total economic shutdown, adding to the woes of South Africa’s women, who were already contending with gender-based discrimination and violence.
According to the first wave of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey – a telephonic survey aimed at tracking the socioeconomic effects of Covid-19 in South Africa – women had been disproportionately affected by unemployment from as early as the first month into the lockdown. In April last year, 36% of the women interviewed said they were employed.
Women were more likely to lose their jobs under hard lockdown, and less likely to recover as the lockdown eased, compared to men. In addition to this, women spent considerably more time on childcare and were less likely to access government’s Covid-19 income support grants.
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