Gender inequality

Abstract

This chapter first examines how gender differences in access to resources have changed during the post-apartheid period. It considers access to earned income in the labour market and non-labour income provided in social assistance programmes. It then turns to the implications of gender inequality in the context of low and falling marriage rates, high rates of non-marital childbirth and an increase in the incidence of female-headed households. The statistics used to describe changes in economic participation, resource access and family formation are derived from a series of nationally representative household surveys conducted regularly since 1994.

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