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INEQUALITY: Women fill less than 15% top positions at companies and make up just 3.6% of CEOs.

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In a market where it has become extremely difficult for first-time home owners to secure mortgages, approvals for women have overtaken those for men at the upper end of the market, the Business Day reported.

Credit bureau Compuscan found that of mortgages between R1 million and R3 million from January to March, 57 percent granted to people under the age of 30 went to women. For mortgages of less than R1 million, this dropped to 54 percent.

"While women dominate in the lower age brackets and lower mortgage balances, this trend undergoes a significant shift in the higher age brackets and higher mortgage balances, where men take the lead," the bureau's data analyst Jacobus Eksteen reportedly said.

He said the shift could, among others, be attributed to the salary gap between men and women in the country.

"The shift could also be attributed to the fact that more and more women are choosing to boycott the traditional roles of motherhood until their mid-to late-thirties and then to re-enter the job market after they have raised their children."

"I think it is worth remembering, though, that these statistics vary and are volatile from quarter to quarter," he said.

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Aug 1, 2012

galaxy4

ITS A GOOD STATS SHOW IMPROVEMENT TO OUR WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY.

BUT WHAT ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL GIRLZ WHO ARE MAKING BABES LIKE THE IS A BIG COMPETITION IN THIS COUNTRY
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Aug 1, 2012

JB$

At high school they breed like rabbits
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Aug 1, 2012

lidodaduvha11

noooo, not true, they pass cause they sell sex, and they got job for sex. dont care about them.
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Aug 1, 2012

tpaz

open your brains and close your thighs........School

open you thighs and close your brain........Career
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Aug 1, 2012

LeparaThePresident

@tpaz
open your brains and close your thighs........School

open you thighs and close your brain........Career
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@tpaz, i guess sir Albert Einstein would have passed out if he sees his relativity postulates are being abus3d like this. Good one anyway.
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Aug 1, 2012

Mrazane

At least there is hope for young women, we need to reach the girls in high schools who are having babies because they know there is a government grant, and some are sexually abused at home and have babies from these incestous rapes.
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Aug 1, 2012

knobkirrie

What about the Nigerians and their anacondas? I thought our sisters are now addicted to the stuff, since all SA males are hung like squirrels, according to the sisters, Kikikikikiki!!!!
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Aug 3, 2012

The_Only_1

I regard that as indirect discrimination to men as per 9 of the Bill of Rights. If women are not in a position to give birth then they should remain Single and not get involve in any matrimonial relationships. I also do not understand how high cooperate positions can be used as an excuse of giving birth becuase section 6 of the Labour Relations Acts clearly stipulate that no employee can be directly or indirectly discriminated due to pregnancy. Women must give birth and must not feel that they wil be discriminated against in a working environment, unless really those women are finding climbing a corporate ladder as an excuse to perform conjugal juties in matrimonial relationships!
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Aug 7, 2012

JnrJack

more steddies to fcuk different men
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