Across boundaries: the journey of a South African woman leader

Women who are currently in responsible management positions provide role models and valuable feedback for the future management development of womanpower in South Africa. This article, based on replies received in a national survey of women who have management and executive status in corporations, presents an overview of South African women managers. Who are they? How do they tend to think? What kind of work areas and habits do they have? How do they explain their own success and the failure of other women to reach the top? And what is important to them in their day-to-day working lives? The data collected in this project have exposed some interesting trends - useful as indicators for management, for women in careers and for parties, academic and other, intent on continuing work in this research area.Vrouens wat tans verantwoordelike bestuursposte beklee, is rolmodelle en gee waardevolle terugvoering vir die toekomstige ontwikkeling van vrouekrag in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie artikel, wat gebaseer is op antwoorde ontvang in 'n landswye opname van vrouens wat bestuurs- en uitvoerende status in maatskappye het, gee 'n oorsig van Suid-Afrikaanse vroue-bestuurders. Wie is hulle? Hoe is hulle geneig om te dink? Watter soort werkareas en -gewoontes het hulle? Hoe verklaar hulle hul eie sukses en die mislukking van ander vrouens om die top te bereik? En wat is belangrik in hulle daaglikse werklewens? Die data in hierdie projek versamel, het interessante tendense blootgele - nuttig as aanduidings vir bestuur, vir vrouens in loopbane en vir instansies, akademies en ander, wat daarin belangstel om verdere werk in hierdie navorsingsarea te doen.

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'DOING' ARCHAEOLOGY Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist. By CARMEL SCHRIRE. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. Pp. x + 276. $29.95 (ISBN 0-8139-1558 + 9).

The Journal of African History ◽

10.1017/s0021853796246900 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 123-177

Author(s):

JAMES DENBOW

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Personal Development ◽

Jewish Population ◽

Caste System ◽

African Woman ◽

Growing Up ◽

South African Woman ◽

European Expansion ◽

Cultural Dialogue

It is hard to put a single categorical label on Carmel Schrire's Digging Through Darkness. It is at once a chronicle of her personal development as an archaeologist and a critique of the colonial dialectic through which indigenous peoples and European invaders have come to be intertwined. Schrire, as a white South African woman, is a product of this process, adding texture to a skilfully written book interlaced with the kind of earthy irony often intrinsic to multi-cultural dialogue in southern Africa. The book ranges from panoramic discussions of European expansion and colonization to introspective essays on the contradictions of growing up Jewish in South Africa, ‘a minority within the larger white group ... [that] endure[d] the persistent effort of certain factions to ally with the Nazis’, while at the same time taking advantage of an entrenched, colour-coded caste system under which ‘the Jewish population cashed in the chips of their appearance’ (p. 30).

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Shorter Telomere Length - A Potential Susceptibility Factor for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Impairments in South African Woman

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0058351 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. e58351 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Stefanie Malan-Müller ◽

Sîan Megan Joanna Hemmings ◽

Georgina Spies ◽

Martin Kidd ◽

Christine Fennema-Notestine ◽

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Keyword(s):

Telomere Length ◽

South African ◽

African Woman ◽

South African Woman ◽

Susceptibility Factor ◽

Neurocognitive Impairments

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