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Rebecca Davis reports that for the past two years, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has been meeting with South African institutes of higher learning to hear what they are doing in terms of gender transformation.
The investigation is still ongoing, but in a number of cases the commission isn’t satisfied that change is coming quickly enough. Some of the excuses that the CGE has heard from university managements to explain why the number of female academics in the country continues to lag so far behind that of male academics are that campuses are too remote, women are off having babies and that there are few jobs for husbands and partners. On Thursday, the commission heard that at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), male academics outnumber females by almost three to one. This is despite the fact that the university is turning out around 9,000 more female graduates than male each year. And UKZN is not alone. Among the measures that could lie ahead are ring-fenced positions for female academics, with legal action for non-compliance.
- Read this report in full at Daily Maverick
- See too, Gender transformation at UKZN needs 'drastic' measures, at TimesLive
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