Few Top Media Posts for Women

Women may be well represented in newsrooms, but they struggle to find a place in senior management or on boards and they still earn less than their male counterparts. This is according to a 2008 report conducted by Gender Links in South Africa and the South African Development Community (SADC).

The study found that South Africa is at the top end of the scale (50 percent), beaten only by Lesotho (73 percent) when it comes to the percentage of women in media for the region.

South Africa leads when it came to top-management positions. Even so, the results were dismal, with only 38 percent of South African women on boards, 25 percent in top management and 35 percent in senior management.

The research took place in the context of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, which urges the media and all institutions in the public and private sectors to achieve gender parity in decision- making positions by 2015.

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