This case study is about tennis in South Africa, wherein the game is widely regarded as women-friendly sport as women have always participated in this sport. However, women and girls involved in tennis are subject to the same challenges presented in patriarchal society in the form of gender discrimination and gender sterotyping. Asset Type: Publications …
This paper applies the Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) approach to investigate disparities in endowments and returns to these endowments between male and female headed households, and to construct a discrimination index. This approach permits us to obtain appropriate parameter estimates of income generating functions, and to use them to derive the partial effects of …
The paper focuses on how women confront gender stereotyping in fishing and how social policies like affirmative action and employment equity impact on women in a democratising South Africa. It also highlights ways that women in fish processing innovate and develop strategies to cope with gender-related workplace problems in the industry. Asset Type: Publications Collection: …
