Education
Source: StarAFrica
About 21 percent of South African women believe that boys have more rights to education than girls while an almost equal number or 20 percent of women believe a woman's place is in the house and not at the workplace, a new survey said.
The survey called the Pulse of the People was carried out by Ipsos between March and April this year, with 3,730 adults representing a cross section of South African society polled in face-to-face interviews.
Released to coincide with Women's Day celebrations held every 9th of August in commemoration of the role of women in the fight against apartheid, the study also showed that 23 percent of women believe when employment is scarce, men have more rights to jobs than women.
On the upside, 58 percent of all of South Africa's about 52 million people believe there has been a great improvement in women's rights in the past 20 years, while a third of women believe that their lives have improved since the fall of apartheid in 1994.
In addition 50 percent of women, who comprise 51 percent of South Africa's total population, believe their children are going to have a brighter and better life than theirs.