Study shows black women less likely to be employed
A report on the gender pay gap by Oxfam South Africa has found that black women are less likely to be employed.
It says just over 3 out of 10 working black women are unemployed, while 7 out of 10 working white men have jobs.
The report, titled "Womxn's Work and Income Inequality in South Africa", also showed that the country's economic structures lean more towards men, upper class and white people and that black women are more likely to work service jobs and are underpaid.
It goes on to say that it would take over 400 black low-income women to earn the annual salary of a CEO. Dr Basani Baloyi, who's with Oxfam SA, explains.
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"We have an industrial policy that is also geared towards male-dominated sectors.
"And women find themselves in low wage in terms of employment and services that are not taken care of in terms of our industrial policy, so that needs to be relooked as to how we actually contributing to gender equality," she says.
