Despite the Liquid Fuels Charter being the first of all Economic Charters encouraging participation of PDI’s in South Africa, representation of women in the oil and energy sector is limited in senior and middle management positions.

The pace at which this situation is being changed is very slow. Partly because women have not been attracted to make a career in the sector and partly because the culture of organisations in the sector appear to have been such that women have not been encouraged to reach (top) management positions.

WOESA’s aim is to ensure that women are increasingly represented in the sector either as entrepreneurs or as employees at all levels of corporate groups. We have identified un-served customer needs in placement of women in the oil & energy sector, both from employers and (prospective) women employees.

WOESA has therefore established a service that would facilitate the candidate search, placement and headhunting of qualified women professionals in the oil and energy sector: the WOESA Recruitment Agency.