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South Africa needs a national, co-ordinated plan of action to create jobs for youth
Last week’s quarterly labour force statistics confirm what we already knew: South Africa’s unemployment levels are among the highest in the world, and pose long-term challenges for the future of our society. We know that a year after leaving school more than...
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Employment intervention: How to keep young women from being left further behind
To build resilience in young women’s employment, we must help them get resilient jobs. This means focusing employment interventions on growth sectors that already employ large numbers of women and dismantling the barriers that lock women out of other well-paid, secure...
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Webinar | Women and Children First, or Last? Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Employment
The case for investing in women has never been more urgent. One of the learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic is that women and young people are in fact last in line when it comes to job security and that every barrier keeping young people out of work is higher and...
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Opportunities for young women in the wake of the “she-cession”
Women have always faced barriers to opportunity. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these challenges, and set our progress back by several decades. Dubbed the “she-cession” by many, the economic shock of COVID has meant that more than twice the number of women than...
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