by Dianne Bayley | Aug 19, 2020 | Sustainability
While key areas such as advancing and retaining female employees have shown some progress over the past few years, there is more work to be done in other areas such as equal access to leadership roles. This is according to Mercer’s When Women Thrive 2020, Sub-Saharan...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 12, 2020 | Workplace 2020
A recent survey investigating the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 national lockdown has shown that, of the estimated three million job losses in South Africa between February and April 2020, twice as many jobs were lost by women than men. While many factors are...
by Dianne Bayley | Aug 10, 2020 | Innovation
South African enterprises will need to make complex ethical choices about how they leverage artificial intelligence (AI) over the coming years as lawmakers and regulators struggle to keep pace with the speed at which the technology is maturing and with the rate of...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 23, 2020 | Innovation
Rwanda is renowned as a pioneer for gender equality. In 2020, it was the only African country ranked in the top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report. It ranked in the top four in the Report’s political empowerment category, in recognition of the...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 10, 2020 | Workplace 2020
A huge 84% of chief sales officers (CSOs) report they are satisfied with the gender diversity of their sales organisations; however, men still outnumber women in all levels of the organisation, according to Gartner. “While heads of sales are generally satisfied with...
