Abstract
In South Africa, women continue to be discriminated against on the grounds of being pregnant in the workplace and sometimes they are denied maternity leave, breastfeeding and childcare facilities. Methodologically, using a descriptive and content analysis research approach, this article examines how the apartheid era restricted the rights of pregnant women in the workplace, particularly black African women. Post-1994 South Africa, the article utilised various protective transformative legal and policy interventions that have been introduced and are being implemented to address the problem of discrimination against women on the grounds of pregnancy in the workplace.
Highlights
Discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy exhibits a coherent social logic.[1]
Since the 20th century in South Africa women were subjected to discrimination and black African women in particular were subject to a triple oppression in terms of their race, gender and class
What is remarkable from the submissions above is that all the transformative interventions discussed require that pregnant employees be treated comparably with others on the basis of ability or inability to work
Summary
In South Africa, women continue to be discriminated against on the grounds of being pregnant in the workplace and sometimes they are denied maternity leave, breastfeeding and childcare facilities. Using a descriptive and content analysis research approach, this article examines how the apartheid era restricted the rights of pregnant women in the workplace, black African women. Post-1994 South Africa, the article utilised various protective transformative legal and policy interventions that have been introduced and are being implemented to address the problem of discrimination against women on the grounds of pregnancy in the workplace
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