A study of the barriers to career progress of women in an organisation

Due to the continual constant battle women have to face in order to progress in the workplace, it has become necessary to assess the degree of transformational change within the workplace within South Africa to try to establish just what these barriers are and how it can be overcome. To examine the main problem, three sub-problems were identified. The first sub-problem that had been identified dealt with what the women’s rights in the new South Africa. It was investigated by evaluating the situation in the New South Africa and what has changed from the past. Is there more gender equality or not. The second sub-problem looked at the barriers that women face in the workplace. It is evident that sexual harassment, male chauvinism, trying to balance work and family as well as organisational structure and culture were among the top barriers that are a hindrance to women’s advancement in the workplace. Finally, the third sub-problem investigated what the glass ceiling effect is and the effect that this has on women in the workplace. The investigation evaluated, and emphasised the difficulties that women face in order to progress in the hierarchy of not only management but other occupations as well. Results have shown that most females and males believe that the glass ceiling is prevalent in the workplace. Most people believe that women can however break through the glass ceiling but now there is a new phenomenon, “The Glass Cliff” which allows women to break through the glass ceiling but only of organisations that are already in trouble

Rise Up, Organize, Protest: The Politics of Internships during the 21st Century

This was David Hyde’s final statement to the press, at the conclusion of the documentary Call Me Intern by Nathalie Berger and David Hyde (2019). Three interns had the courage to speak up about their working conditions, rather than just “keeping their heads down” and then stepping into a salaried position after their time of unpaid labor. Their actions led to the creation of the Global Intern Coalition with protests and strikes each February 20th, which encourages interns to know their rights, know the law, and know what remuneration they are entitled to. Although being paid for one’s work is a key driver of these protests (which has the support of the European Parliament), the documentary exposes far more

Being Ourselves for You: There’s no Business like Ethnological Show Business

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The politics of repatriation and reburial in post-apartheid South Africa

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IMPROVING EFFICIENCY IN IMAGE ENCRYPTION AND COMPRESSION USING PERMUTATIONS & PREDICTIONS

Due to rapid growth in image sizes, an alternate of numerically lossless coding named visually lossless coding is considered to reduce storage size and lower data transmission. In this paper, a lossy compression method on encrypted color image is introduced with undetectable quality loss and high compression ratio. The proposed method includes the Zhang lossy compression [1], Hierarchical Oriented Prediction (HOP) [2], uniform quantization, negative sign removal, concatenation of 7-bit data and Huffman compression. The encrypted image is divided into rigid and elastic parts. The Zhang elastic compression is applied on elastic part and HOP is applied on rigid part. This method is applied on different test cases and the results were evaluated. The experimental evidences suggest that, the proposed method has better coding performance than the existing encrypted image compressions, with 9.645 % reductions in bit rate and the eye perception is visually lossless

Disability-related-distress in primary school learners with vision impairment due to uncorrected refractive error in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa – a qualitative study

BACKGROUND:Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is a major cause of vision impairment among children that impacts negatively on their lives including distresses. We aim to understand the disability-related distress among vision-impaired children due to URE in rural and semi-rural South Africa using qualitative techniques. METHODS:Structured focus groups of children (aged 5-12 years old) with normal vision and vision impairment due to URE from four schools in Pinetown, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, were performed (four mixed-gender group discussions and eight single gender group discussions). We recruited the study participants after the children underwent standardised vision screening. Criterion sampling was used when selecting study participants. The interviews were transcribed to identify meaning units and broken down to condensed meaning units, which were then grouped into megathemes. Themes were then generated. RESULTS:Thirteen children with normal vision and 63 children with vision impairment due to URE participated in the twelve focus group discussions with 36 boys (47%) and 40 girls (53%). Twelve themes were generated. The megathemes were Loss of Self Confidence (number of themes (n) = 3), Loss of self-worth (n = 3), Loss of interconnection/ interaction with community (n = 2), Humiliation (n = 2) and Discrimination (n = 2). CONCLUSIONS:We found that vision impairment due to URE can cause distress in different domains in children's life and further grouped them into different themes. The themes will be used for the development of a tool to assess disability-related distress among children with vision impairment due to URE. We also recommend that distresses caused by URE should be taken into consideration when designing eye care programmes for children

SAMDI's research report on the Community Development Workers' Programme

Commissioned by the South African Management Development Institute (SAMDI), OctoberThe overall aim of this research project was to evaluate the process of implementing the CDW programme through a learnership. The specific objectives of the project, therefore, were to evaluate the recruitment and selection procedures of the CDWs in order to ensure the best matching of people with the job description, review and evaluate the overall training intervention in order to determine its effectiveness in providing CDWs with the appropriate skills to perform their duties, define and augment the job description of the CDWs during the research and evaluation process in order to identify focused key performance areas and ensure effective service delivery, and evaluate the effectiveness of the service delivery by the CDWs in the communities where possible

A Case of Persistent Urogenital Sinus: Pitfalls and challenges in diagnosis

Persistent urogenital sinus (PUGS) is a rare anomaly whereby the urinary and genital tracts fail to separate during embryonic development. We report a three-year-old female child who was referred to the Sabah Women & Children Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia, in 2016 with a pelvic mass. She had been born prematurely at 36 gestational weeks via spontaneous vaginal delivery in 2013 and initially misdiagnosed with neurogenic bladder dysfunction. The external genitalia appeared normal and an initial sonogram and repeat micturating cystourethrograms did not indicate any urogenital anomalies. She therefore underwent clean intermittent catheterisation. Three years later, the diagnosis was corrected following the investigation of a persistent cystic mass posterior to the bladder. At this time, a clinical examination of the perineum showed a single opening into the introitus. Magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis revealed gross hydrocolpos and a genitogram confirmed a diagnosis of PUGS, for which the patient underwent surgical separation of the urinary and genital tracts