SA Barometer 2013: Chapter 4 Productive resources and employment

Key points

• There are 23% women in key economic decision making in productive resources
• Percentage of women employed by race: 30.8% Black African women; 43.2% Coloured women; 40.2% Indian/Asian women; 56.1 White women
• 55.0% women are involved in “market onlyÀ economic activities
• 37.8% women are involved in “non-market onlyÀ economic activities
• South Africa’s proportion of population below $1.00 (PPP) per day is at 4.0% as at 2011; and that of less than per day is at 16.8% in the same year
• South Africa’s employment-to-population ratio, which is a proportion of the country’s working-age population that is employed is at 34.6% for females and 47.4% for males
• The percentage of females in non-agriculture sector wage employments was 45% as at 2012
• 5.4% of women earn R 16,000.00+; compared to 11.0% men the same earning bracket
• 17.1% women directors in 2012
• 21.4% women executive managers in 2012
• Time Use Survey of 2010 showed that women spent 229 minutes per day on unpaid care work compared to 97 minutes per day spent by men
• The SGDI for productive resources is 78% which puts the country at number six out of the 15 SADC countries.
• The citizens scored the government 75% in their efforts to reach the 2015 target, ranking second place.
• 13% of women benefited from the land reform programmes in the period 1994-2007

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