Figure 3.31: Annual leaves
Households and children
In this section, we try to uncover gender related HR issues like, were women staying more at home during the pandemic? How did things go with children? Who attended to them? What happened to the devices that had to be shared? How did the time get managed? First, we wanted to know whether it was mostly women that stayed at home, or was the situation equal for both men and women. So we prompted our respondents to react to the statement: “During the COVID-19 outbreak, women were mostly staying at home for their children / household responsibilities, and men were taking care of the business in my company”.
Figure 3.32: “During the COVID-19 outbreak, women were mostly staying at home for their children / household responsibilities, and men were taking care of the business in my company”
The survey results point that only 5,4% strongly agree and 20,1% agree (totaling 25,5% quarter our population), while some 9,8% strongly disagree and 35,3% disagree with the statement (totaling 45,1%). This means the situation of women staying more at home during the pandemic than men is not established or widespread practice among African SMEs. Next, we try to know whether there were many women who had children that stayed at home and they had to attend to them: “During the COVID-19 outbreak, most women in my team had children at home to keep and look after”
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