Women in business in Africa: (Re)claiming our agency

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over more than 50 years, with the first, authored by Sandra Van der Merwe and titled A portrait of the South African woman manager, appearing in 1979, 10 years after the founding of the SAJBM. During the 1980s, the titles of two studies published indicated the tentative positioning of topics advocating women's rights, with the late Rita Kellerman (1980) asking whether working women and organisations were compatible, and Truida Prekel (1980) penning an article titled Why a special look at women?. The late Ronel Erwee wrote two important articles, the first proposing entrepreneurship as a career option for women (1987), given the fact that women were not necessarily welcomed in the corporate world at the time. Her second article (1992) addressed the issue of organisational variables that influence women's advancement in South Africa. The last contribution by Ronel was followed by a period of drought of articles about women at work, which was only broken in 2005 with an article by Akinola on gender and structure in the cocoa industry in Nigeria. More recent gender articles in the SAJBM, amongst others, problematised women through the queen bee syndrome -the reluctance of top-level women to help other women reach higher levels in the organisation (Johnson & Mathur-Helm, 2013) -investigated work-family conflict (Bagraim & Harrison, 2013), reported on gender differences in workplace spirituality (Nasurdin, Nejati, & Mei, 2013), explored women's leadership competencies (Samuel & Mokoaleli, 2017), related cultural influences on innovation amongst female entrepreneurs (Idris, 2010) and examined women's entrepreneurial cognitive ambidexterity (De Villiers Scheepers, Boshoff, & Oostenbrink, 2017). Three more articles published in the SAJBM considered differences between men and women as users of technology (Kotze, Anderson, & Summerfield, 2016; Nel & Raleting, 2012) and food products (Priilaid & Horwitz, 2016). Emirati women's experiences of job satisfaction introduced a perspective on women in the Middle East (Ercan, 2018), and the most recent article advances research on women at work by making a sound methodological contribution to quantitative research on women and men (Steyn & De Bruin, 2020a). Furthermore, the above contributions predominantly focused on South African women and workplaces, and there is still a dearth of research on the lived experiences of women at work on the rest of the African continent.

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