{"id":41903,"date":"2026-08-08T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41903"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:20:07","slug":"women-carry-greatest-cost-of-sas-economic-inequality-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/women-carry-greatest-cost-of-sas-economic-inequality-oxfam\/","title":{"rendered":"Women carry greatest cost of SA\u2019s economic inequality: Oxfam \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top Chief Executive Officer in South Africa (SA) earns in less than four hours what a minimum-wage domestic worker earns in a full year, according to a Women\u2019s Day statement released by Oxfam SA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The comparison highlights the deep-seated economic inequality that persists in the country, where essential care and domestic labor, disproportionately performed by women, remain severely undervalued.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Released ahead of National Women&#8217;s Day, which marks the 70th anniversary of the historic 1956 Women\u2019s March to the Union Buildings, the statement underscores that economic justice remains unrealised for millions of SA women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam SA noted that while extraordinary wealth accumulates at the top, women continue to carry the financial and social burden of lower wages, informal employment, and uncompensated care work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The advocacy group called on policy-makers and the private sector to implement systemic reforms, including closing the gender pay gap, ensuring living wages, and strengthening social support systems to address structural inequality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/Oxfam&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41904,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41903","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Oxfam highlights deep gender pay disparity ahead of Women\u2019s Day","published_date":"2026-08-08 13:06:55","news_description":"Oxfam highlights deep gender pay disparity ahead of Women\u2019s Day","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41905,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41903\/revisions\/41905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}