Women in numbers

25 August 2015

What is the demographic profile of women in South Africa? What is their average age and where do most work? How many are formally employed? And what are the prevalent diseases that kill South African women? Looking at UCT with a smaller lens, what are the significant numbers attached to women at UCT? How many are students and PASS staff and how many employed as teachers, lecturers and researchers? This snapshot gives us a 'macro' and 'micro' glimpse of some telling national and institutional tallies.

Women in numbers

Women in numbers

Women in numbers

Compiled by Yusuf Omar and Abigail Calata.

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