South African women hold 47.2% of senior management positions, the highest proportion in the world, yet retire with 21% less in savings than the men they outperform.

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Please accept our apologies for an error in yesterday’s fact. See corrected fact below:

Women drivers were classed as lower risk and could pay up to 40% less than men on motor insurance, with women involved in up to 20% fewer accidents than men. An entire insurer, First for Women, was built around this data point, and gender remains a legal, active rating factor in South African motor insurance today.

Source: one, two