Women’s workplace gains slow as Covid-19 crisis strikes

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Women’s workplace gains slow as Covid-19 crisis strikes
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Women workers are more likely to lose their jobs in the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, slowing gains made over recent years.

The report for 2019, like its previous iterations, shows a slow but steady increase in women’s representation in management. But it also shows that their representation continues to be concentrated in the lower, more vulnerable levels of the workplace.

In 2019, 16.2% of all people promoted into top management were white women, while only 9.5% were black African women. Just 5% were so-called coloured women, despite this group representing 4.4% of the economically active population and white women representing 3.8%. warned that the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic aftermath would have a far worse effect on women’s employment than men’s.

These effects have already been felt in South Africa. According to the first set of findings from the, released in mid-July, the rates of net job losses in the first part of the lockdown were much higher for women compared to men . For example, women represented more than 70% of the permanent health and social work workforce, but they were concentrated at the three lowest occupational levels.

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