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WOMEN AND FINANCES – A DISCUSSION WE NEED TO HAVE

“The pandemic has, arguably, been especially devastating to women. It set progress for gender pay parity back by possibly a generation, partly due to the massive burden of care women have carried over this time,” says Rizwana Butler, human resources executive at Capitec Bank. “Two out of the three million job losses that happened in the 2020 lockdowns were women. In a world where women already earn less, are financially stressed and don’t tend to invest, this could have detrimental consequences. Now is the time to turn it around.”

PERSONAL FINANCE

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