Cyril Ramaphosa Emphasises the Hardships Faced by Women Amid the Unemployment Crisis

• Despite the fact that the country's unemployment line is made up of millions of people, Women, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, are the most economically disadvantaged by the job crisis
• Although the country has made progress in areas such as government, civil society, justice, sport, and culture, Ramaphosa claims that the same cannot be said for women economically
• Government planned to host a Women's Economic Assembly this week to discuss and seek solutions to the economic hardships that women face

Although the country's unemployment line is made of millions President Cyril Ramaphosa has said women are economically the hardest hit by the job crisis.

Ramaphosa said as a country progressive strides to encourage and achieve equality in areas like government, civil society, the administration of justice, sport and culture but the same progress could not be said for women in an economic sense.

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A Women’s Economic Assembly was expected to be hosted this week by the government, a first-of-its-kind event, to table and search for solutions to alleviate the economic hardships that women faced.

The assembly was intended to bring public and private stakeholders in one room to best determine how supply chains could be optimised to the benefit of women-owned businesses, address how women's economic empowerment is hindered by policies and increase financial accessibility for women-owned businesses, with a high penchant on rural enterprises, according to DispatchLIVE.

A report by News24 revealed that the President said while more men were unemployed they were still likely to be paid higher salaries than their female counterparts with women being more likely to do unpaid work.

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According to the country's latest employment figures, the unemployment rate of black African women was the highest at 41% that surpassed the national average by 4%.

Ramaphosa says easing lockdown not a political ploy: 'Don't mix vaccinations with elections'

In other news about the President, Briefly News recently reported that Ramaphosa insisted that the decision to adjust the lockdown was anything but an elections ploy ahead of the local polls on 1 November, as some quarters have begun to speculate.

Ramaphosa announced previously that South Africa would move to an adjusted lockdown alert Level 1 from Level 2 effective from midnight on 1 October. Ramaphosa said the move was informed by plausible scientific evidence.

Briefly News reported that among several wholesale revisions under Level 1 restrictions, the curfew will be from 12 midnight to 4 am.

Source: Briefly News