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The gender gap in employment:
Around the country, finding a job is much tougher for women than it is for men. When women are employed, they tend to work in low-quality jobs in vulnerable conditions, and there is little improvement forecast in the near future.
The current labour force participation rate for women is close to 49% for in demand jobs or occupations where rare skills are require. For men, it’s 75%. That’s a difference of 26 percentage points, with some regions facing a gap of more than 50 percentage points
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Setting the Standards
Equal Work, Equal Pay
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Employment Benefits
From an economic perspective, reducing gender gaps in labour force participation could substantially boost South Africa's GDP. The regions with the largest gender gaps would see huge growth benefits. Many developed countries would also see their average annual GDP growth increase, which is significant during times of near-zero economic growth.
Statistical Analysis
Employment Rate for Women
The chart on the right shows the rate of employment for women in South Africa. The chart clearly shows that women are work mostly on labor for jobs with little to no special skills needed.
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Unemployment gap in different Departments
The financial budget tends to allocate a much higher funds to departments that has more male dominated department.
Employment sectors
Setting the Standards
Sectors Women are mostly employed
The sectors women are mostly employed in the sector non-agriculture Informal sector.
Employment Benefits
Males work in the sectors with a high budget funding then women.
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Solutions:
Solutions:
The BudgetBreakdown would also monitor the Government Budgeting required to ensure that they budget for the empowerment of women, by indicating how much was budgeted, of the budgeted amount how much was used, of the used amount how much had reached women, of the women reached how many were empowered and in what way.
Final Thought
The data is clear: women want to be in paid employment, but a persistent set of socio-economic barriers keep them out of the workforce. Identifying and quantifying these barriers allows us to develop smarter policy responses for eliminating them.
