Gender Inequality In South Africa

Gender Inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. Although laws have changed to accommodate gender equality unfortunately people’s mind-sets cannot be changed as quickly. An employer’s morals and values influence how women are treated in the workplace. There are South African women who achieved great things when gender inequality was overcome, such as Santie Botha who is the chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and at the age of 48 was the youngest chancellor in South Africa or Nicky Newton-King is the first woman to run the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in its 124-year history. Ntombifuthi Mtoba has had a range of firsts in her career, she became the first woman on the board

Vodafone has recently announced that it will become one of the first organisations in the world to introduce a mandatory minimum global maternity policy. The managers in these companies that do not consider the women’s wellbeing end up with social moral dilemma within themselves. Social Moral dilemma outlines that the management should take into account that the decisions they make should be good for one and for others to avoid unethical behaviours.
Gender Pay Gaps
Louis Kretzschmar et al (2012:85-98) believed in using normative criteria to assess business decisions such as paying individuals differently.
Is it legal?
Company regulations stipulate the amount of hours an employee works and decides their remuneration. Therefore it is legal if individuals get paid

The greatest happiness of the nation lies with women empowerment as utilising a women’s ability to the maximum and eliminating pay barriers, you can increase output by 3% to 25%. Empowering a women, empowers a nation.
Employers Ethical Obligations
The rationale behind not having women in top positions is that women often lack the leadership skills to perform duties in the business. Women are often too pre-occupied with household issues to deal with the long hours at work. Laws such as affirmative action have been put in place for women empowerment. In the industrial sector employers are reluctant to employ women, not because it’s a predominantly male sector but because it requires physical strength.
Ethics involves the interaction of one with others and the concept of ‘self, good and others’ therefore it is the responsibility of the employer to offer more than what the law requires since the law is the rule and not all the rules are ethical.
The Golden Rule
This rule stipulates that you should “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Scottish Proverbs