Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorWarnat, Amber Een_ZA
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dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
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dc.description.abstractThe objectives of the South African Employment Equity Act include providing equal opportunity in the workplace. However, the existing methods for achieving equality of opportunity have been unsuccessful because they do not engage sufficiently with the complexity of, and reasons for, inequality in the workplace. This thesis argues that the body of literature on intersectionality has great potential to contribute to the process of improving equality of opportunity. Derived from the literature, an intersectional analysis offers employers a way to engage with the complex nature of inequality, by obtaining a fuller, more nuanced and specific understanding of the phenomenon in a particular place of work. In this way, profound and effective solutions can be found. The thesis offers background on employment equity in South Africa and an overview of intersectionality, which reveals its value as a theoretical paradigm. It then describes the development of instruments to be used to analyse (in)equality of opportunity in a workplace.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWarnat, A. E. (2012). <i>Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11959en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWarnat, Amber E. <i>"Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11959en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWarnat, A. 2012. Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Warnat, Amber E AB - The objectives of the South African Employment Equity Act include providing equal opportunity in the workplace. However, the existing methods for achieving equality of opportunity have been unsuccessful because they do not engage sufficiently with the complexity of, and reasons for, inequality in the workplace. This thesis argues that the body of literature on intersectionality has great potential to contribute to the process of improving equality of opportunity. Derived from the literature, an intersectional analysis offers employers a way to engage with the complex nature of inequality, by obtaining a fuller, more nuanced and specific understanding of the phenomenon in a particular place of work. In this way, profound and effective solutions can be found. The thesis offers background on employment equity in South Africa and an overview of intersectionality, which reveals its value as a theoretical paradigm. It then describes the development of instruments to be used to analyse (in)equality of opportunity in a workplace. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa TI - Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11959 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11959
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWarnat AE. Intersectionality and employment equity in South Africa. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11959en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherJustice and Transformationen_ZA
dc.titleIntersectionality and employment equity in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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