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Challenges in the Era of Globalization - iaabd

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Figure 1.1: Spread <strong>of</strong> directorships among women directors<br />

Source: BWA, 2010: 43<br />

Figure 1.2: Percentage <strong>of</strong> women directors positions by race<br />

Source: BWA, 2010: 48.<br />

<strong>Challenges</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Era</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Globalization</strong><br />

Edited by Emmanuel Obuah<br />

• The <strong>in</strong>clusion <strong>of</strong> government departments <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> census from 2008, while not easily comparable with<br />

corporate and SOE data, has never<strong>the</strong>less shown <strong>the</strong> progress be<strong>in</strong>g made by <strong>the</strong> government <strong>in</strong><br />

gender equality. There are more women (55.8 per cent) employed <strong>in</strong> government departments than<br />

men, and if one excludes <strong>the</strong> South African National Defence Force (SANDF), <strong>the</strong> figure rises to 57.7<br />

per cent; while <strong>the</strong> SANDF itself comprises only 25.9 per cent women (BWA, 2010: 13, 67-68).<br />

There are also more black men and women <strong>in</strong> government departments, with a steady <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>of</strong><br />

black women accompanied by a gradual fall <strong>of</strong> white women s<strong>in</strong>ce 2008, while numbers <strong>of</strong> Asian and<br />

Coloured women have rema<strong>in</strong>ed low and static. Disappo<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gly, women comprise only 0.5 per cent<br />

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