Only 26% of SA senior management positions are currently filled by women and 21% of local businesses have no women at all in senior management positions...The percentage of senior women in businesses...has remained fairly static – at between 26% and 28% – for the past seven years...“The percentage of working women in senior management positions in SA is inadequate,” says Jeanette Hern, deputy CEO of Grant Thornton Johannesburg... 29% of SA businesses have specific plans to hire or promote more women into senior management over the next 12 months. “Although this is only slightly lower than last year (32%), the trend is surprising in light of government’s insistence on introducing further quotas for women in decision-making positions,” says Hern. “One of the provisions in the Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill legislates that eventually 50% of all decision-making positions must go to women in ‘designated public bodies and designated private bodies’.”...