Women smash the glass ceiling but...

A recently released Statistics Botswana report shows, officially, that women are making up lost ground against men, in terms of opportunities in the formal employment sector. Long overlooked for recruitment and promotion across the different formal job sectors, the Quarterly Multi-Topic Survey covering the fourth quarter of last year, shows how far women have come.

The report is critical as it allows comparison of the fourth quarter of 2019 to the corresponding quarter last year, a period that covers the pre and post pandemic performance of the economy relative to trends in employment creation.