Top Women Awards - Entry Form

Please select which category you would like to enter (you may enter multiple categories)

To be completed for Individual Awards categories

• At least 33.33% of overall staff and at least 25% of overall middle and senior management are female.
• Turnover per annum is over R50 million and the company has at least 20 employees.
• The company has been in operation for at least eight years.
• The company has a gender equity policy in place and their CSI initiatives demonstrate the company’s commitment to gender empowerment.

Top Gender Empowered Company: Emergent Companies and SMMEs
This award goes to the company that demonstrates the highest level of gender empowerment. Important factors are measurable and accountable leadership that is committed to developing women in the company and the per capita expenditure on training, education and development of women.

• Turnover per annum is between R3 and R25 million and the company has at least 5 employees.
• The company has been in operation for at least two years.
• The owner is actively involved in the management of the company.
• The company has policies, skills development programmes and/or CSI initiatives that demonstrate their commitment to gender empowerment.

An overall winner of Top Gender Empowered Company will be selected from the winners of the seven company awards.

• At least 33.3% of overall staff and at least 33.3% of management must be female.
• The department met their gender empowerment key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets for service delivery, within budget.
• Vision for the department going forward.

Top Gender Empowered Government Agency or Parastatal
This award goes to the government department that that demonstrates the highest level of gender empowerment. An important factor is measurable and accountable leadership that is committed to developing women in the company.

• At least 33.3% of overall staff and at least 33.3% of management must be female.
• The department met their gender empowerment key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets for service delivery, within budget.
• Vision for the organisation going forward.

Individual Awards

Top Woman Entrepreneur
This award goes to the person who can demonstrate her commitment to gender empowerment both within and outside the company that she started.

• The company must employ more than 5 people and have a turnover that is greater than R5 million per annum.
• The company must show significant year-on-year growth (compared to sector average), underpinned by strong financial performance.
• The company has been in operation for at least two years.

Top Young Woman Entrepreneur
This award goes to the person (aged 40 years or less) who can demonstrate her commitment to gender empowerment both within and outside the company that she started.

• The company must employ more than 5 people and have a turnover that is greater than R5 million per annum.
• The company must show significant year-on-year growth (compared to sector average).
• The company has been in operation for at least two years.

Top Woman Executive
This award goes to the person who works for a large company who can demonstrate her commitment to gender empowerment.

• The executive works for a company that has more than 50 employees, a turnover greater than R50 million per annum and has been in operation for more than eight years.
• The executive has been in a senior management position for at least five years, has a proven track record of achievements and has contributed to a changed perception of women in the workplace.
• The executive has contributed to escalating the level and quality of gender economic empowerment within the workplace.

Top Woman in the Public Sector
This award goes to the person working in the public sector who can demonstrate her commitment to gender empowerment.

• The woman holds a senior management sector
• The woman has worked in the public sector for at least two years.
• Achievements within the workplace to escalate the level and quality of gender economic empowerment.

Top Woman-owned Company
This award goes to the company owner whose manner in which they do business demonstrates their commitment to gender empowerment.

• The company is 100% woman-owned
• The company has more than 10 employees and an annual turnover greater than R35 million.
• At least 33.3% of overall staff and at least 33.3% of management must be female.

Confidentiality

All the information contained in this document will be treated as confidential. No company specific information will be released or used for any purpose other than the evaluation process without the express consent of the applicant.

Terms and Conditions

• Entrants in the individual category and representatives of company and government departmental entrants must be prepared to attend both an interview at the Judging and the Top Women Awards function..
• Entrants in the individual category and representatives of company and government departmental entrants must also be prepared to meet and be interviewed by members of the media
• Entrants not domiciled in South Africa and companies whose main business activities are not based in South Africa are ineligible for entry.
• No one employed as an independent contractor by Topco Media is eligible for entry.
• No one acting as an Award judge is eligible to enter, or to judge the entry of a company or department he or she may be employed by in any capacity.
• No sponsor is eligible to enter the Awards.
• At the conclusion of the Awards, all copies of submissions will be destroyed and therefore not returned. Entrants are therefore advised to keep copies of submissions, supporting documentation and other attachments.
• Information provided by entrants will be confidential to the senior executives of Topco Media, members of its research department and the Award judges. No information so provided will be released by Topco Media to any other party whatsoever without the express written consent of the entrant.
• By filling in the entry forms provided and submitting it to Topco Media, entrants are thereby warranting that all information supplied is correct to the best of their knowledge and agree to be contacted for final phase auditing and related publishing purposes.
• The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence regarding judging and the making of the Awards will be entered into.