South Africa: More Women Needed in Boardrooms

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Recruitment companies should reportedly go to greater lengths to ensure that top women candidates are appointed to senior management positions in South African companies, as gender equity remains major problem in South Africa.

Dr Adri Drotskie, who heads up the M Com Business Management Programme at the University of Johannesburg, said there was a small pool of top women executives who were being moved around like chess pieces with relatively few new qualified candidates being brought into the corporate world.

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