Overview
The Effects of Apartheid
on the Status of Women

 

The effects of apartheid on Black South African in areas such as family, labor, health, social security, and education are fully explained and detailed. Contrasts are drawn with the women's White counterparts in the areas covered in the paper.

Many facts of apartheid South Africa such as women often being often left alone for months at a time while their men worked in the mines, are covered. The effect on the women, their children, and the difficulty the women faced finding employment because of race and gender are given economic and social analysis.