Human Interest
Women between 18 and 35 most ambitious─── 12:30 Thu, 05 Mar 2015
Johannesburg - Women millennials, between the ages of 18 and 35, are more ambitious than any other female generation.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows that female millennials are more highly educated and are entering the workforce in larger numbers than any of their previous generations.
PwC spokesperson Nana Madikane says 8 756 women born between 1980 and 1995 from 75 countries were surveyed.
Two hundred and twenty six of them were from South Africa.
According to the study 53 percent of women millennials ranked opportunities for career progression as the most attractive employer trait.
According to PwC, South African women millennials were least likely to want to work in defence (21 percent), government and public services (32 percent), oil and gas (14 percent), and insurance (15 percent), because of the sectors' image and reputation.
A total of 71 percent of the South African women surveyed wanted to work outside the country during their career.
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