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TimesLIVE reports that annual statistics for top leadership placements show that South African companies are taking gender transformation to heart, with more women than men landing management and senior leadership roles for the first time in 2018.
This is according to data from Jack Hammer, an independent executive search firm, which shows a 36% increase in the number of women appointed to leadership roles compared to 2017, with a total of 52% of roles being filled by women in 2018. The gains were in both EE (employment equity) and white female appointments. Advaita Naidoo, COO at Jack Hammer, commented that it was significant to see such a massive jump in a single year. Moreover, 2018 was not an outlier, given that appointments of women consistently rose year-on-year from 26% in 2015 to 32% in 2016 to 38% in 2017 and, ultimately, to 52% last year. Leaner purses due to economic sluggishness, as well as an ongoing trend of black executive-level talent moving abroad when opportunities arose, meant companies were likely to continue to face an uphill transformation battle for the foreseeable future, Naidoo observed. She added that despite the slowdown, “the picture still looks better than it did five years ago."
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