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TimesLIVE reports that fewer than two out of 10 women receive full pay from their employers when they go on maternity leave.
This was one of the findings of CareerJunction’s latest gender survey, with a sample size of 1,600 men and women. "More than a third of South African women feel that that their gender and parental responsibilities are holding them back from advancing in their careers," the job search and recruitment portal said on Tuesday. A majority of women get between 1-3 (38%) and 3-6 (36%) months of maternity leave. Only 18% receive full pay during this period, however, and 28% receive less than 50% of their pay. "A shocking 39% receive no compensation at all," CareerJunction said. Caring for children also falls primarily on women. More than 40% of female survey participants with children said they relied on their three days’ annual family responsibility leave to attend to sick children, while 18% took annual leave - or simply called in sick. Only 7% said their partner stepped in to help. Unlike the Giraffe recruitment survey, which also came out on Tuesday and found that women in SA earned on average 25% less than men, the CareerJunction survey found no significant income gaps - for people working in their field of study.
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