Career progression of women into top management at a South African bank

Abstract: Although South Africa has one of the most comprehensive labour legislations that promotes gender equality in the workplace, women in South Africa are still subject to gender inequality in the workplace (Espi, Francis & Valodia, 2019:45). This inequality becomes more marked when one moves up the management levels of South African organisations, with only 24.4% of top management being women (Department of Labour, 2020:5). Notwithstanding that, the South African banking sector is comprised of 60% women employees, when one looks at the top management level, this representation reduces drastically to 29.6% (Absa, 2019a:5; FirstRand, 2018:38; Nedbank, 2019:11; Standard Bank, 2019:9). This indicates that there is underrepresentation of women in top management of South African banks...M.Com. (Business Management