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Collaborating Centre  Latest Publications  Multi-media | Exploratory Study of Female Truck Driver's and their Employers in 3 companies in South Africa
Project Started : March 2008
Project Ends : April 2009
Lead Researcher : Lisa Dancaster
Project Donor : JFA
Overview
An exploratory study which examined the links between the skilled labour shortage of the road freight industry in South Africa and the hiring of female truck drivers. The study included a photo-journalism component, the results of which were a photo-essay on women truck drvers who participated in the study.
Research Questions
The aim of this project is to inform policy makers, the private sector, and researchers about how the HIV-related skilled labour shortage is impacting on the road freight industry in South Africa, and specifically, how this phenomena is affecting the hiring of female drivers. The key research questions are:
- To what extent is the skilled labour shortage a major concern of employers in the road freigth industry in South Africa?
- To what extent is HIV/AIDS seen as a causal factor of the skilled labour shortage?
- Why are female truck drivers being trained and employed?
- How are companies adapting their policies and practices to hiring female truck drivers?
- What are the experiences of female truck drivers in this industry?
Strategic Questions
This project would address HEARD’s three strategic objectives in the following ways:
- Studying the extent which HIV/AIDS mortality is driving new employment of women in the trucking industry [Driving forces of the pandemic];
- Examining whether the hiring of women is an adequate substitution for the lost work force [Effective responses];
- Interrogating how vulnerable these women are, by virtue of both the inherent dangers of the trucking industry, and the specific risks of being a women in an isolated work environment [Vulnerability].
Expected Knock-On
This project will help generate a greater understanding of how HIV/AIDS is affecting the road freight industry in South Africa. It will also inform a greater understanding of specific adaptations that are required within the road freight industry in order to accommodate female truck drivers safely and effectively.
Project Impact
With this study, we aim to
- Increase awareness about the hiring of female drivers in the road freight industry in South Africa (among general public and road freight industry)
- Increase awareness about the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the road freight industry in South Africa (among general public and road freight industry)
- Increase awareness about the sorts of adjustments that are necessary in order to accommodate women in this industry (road freight industry)
Collaborators
- Rennies Distribution Services
- Unitrans Holdings
Key Phases
| Started |
Completed |
Description |
| July 2008 |
September 2008 |
Literature Review and contacts with road freight industry |
| September 2008 |
September 2008 |
Ethical approval acquired for project. |
| October 2008 |
January 2009 |
Contacts with road freight and developing research tools |
| January 2009 |
February 2009 |
Field work in Durban and Johannesburg |
| February 2009 |
March 2009 |
Coding and analysis of qualitative data |
| April 2009 |
April 2009 |
Multimedia dissemination in gallery show |
| April 2009 |
May 2009 |
Dissemination to road freight industry and general public |
| June 2009 |
June 2009 |
Possible travelling gallery show to other venues |
Outputs and Activities
- Click here to view the multimedia piece, Women in the driver's seat
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