THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE POST-APARTHEID - SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR MARKET

8 There are two hours worked questions in the LFSs, that is the hours usually worked in the main job and in other activities, and the hours worked in the past 7 days in the main job and in other activities. [...] Men in the sample were also more likely to be the head of their households: 75 percent of African men in the sample were the head of their households in 2007, while only 46 percent of African women in the sample held the same position. [...] Thus, included in the participation equation are a range of household variables including the number of children under seven in the household, the number of children aged eight to fifteen in the household, the number of men and women of working age in the household, and the number of people over 65 years of age in the household. [...] 12 In terms of the household variables, the results from the participation probit (see Appendix 1) show that for women the number of other working-age women in the household impacts on the probability of a woman participating in the labour market and this is significant in all three years. [...] The probability of an African woman participating in the labour market is negatively impacted on by the number of people over 65 years of age in the household in 2001, probably due to the presence of pension income in the household, but the effect was dampened by 2005 and was not found in the 2007 results.