President Cyril Ramaphosa said there are still many women challenges to build “a truly non-sexist and equal society.'
President Cyril Ramaphosa said while the country has made great progress in improving the position of women in society, it continues to face many challenges in building “a truly non-sexist and equal society.”The president said while Eskom has managed to keep load shedding at bay, it also managed to narrow the gender gap in the workplace.
“Two years ago. I met with Eskom’s power station managers and I was pleased to see that a number of them were women. I found this to be a complete departure from the past where power station managers were always white men. This represented tremendous transformation on a demographic as well as gender basis.
Ramaphosa said women are excelling not only in management and leadership positions but also in technical roles and occupations that were previously the preserve of men at various state-owned enterprises. “Among the achievements of the programme since its inception has been that just over 33% of Eskom’s workforce is now female, 20% of Eskom executives are women, and women occupy approximately 43% of senior management roles. This is important progress, but there is still some way to go to achieve gender parity,” Ramaphosa said.“The company’s procurement spend on black-women-owned businesses has increased from R6 billion in 2013 to over R16 billion by 2022.
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