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Title:Women and the Labour Market: Challenges Posed for Job-Creation Policy
Author:Horn, Pat
Year:1994
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:25
Pages:79-87
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:women's employment
women
External link:https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/247/OBJ/download
Abstract:In both the formal and informal sector of South Africa women are concentrated in the low-income activities. Particularly black women are the poorest people in the society, and the most marginal in the distribution of the society's wealth. Job creation strategies, which provide jobs mainly for unemployed men, have limited potential for uplifting the standard of living of the community as a whole if the socioeconomic position of women remains unaddressed. For job creation to lead to development, redistribution and sustained economic growth, it is important to transform the occupational division of labour between men and women so that women occupy a more central place in the economy, and more of the higher-wage and higher-skill occupations. However, strategies for putting women at the centre of the economy fail because they do not challenge the patriarchal relationships which give rise to the marginal and secondary position of women. To transform the occupational gender division of labour in society, working women have to be well organized, not only as workers, but specifically as women focusing on the root causes of their oppression as women. Bibliogr., notes.
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