Top Gender Empowered Company: Resources Award

This award is open to all mining, oil, gas, and alternative energy companies that have dug deep to further gender empowerment.

Sponsor: Anglo American

Top Gender Empowered Company: Retail Award

Hardline retailers, broadline retailers, soft goods retailers, shopping centres, warehouse/wholesale, distributors, this one’s for you.

Sponsor: Godrej

Top Gender Empowered Company: Construction Award

This award is open to all gender empowered companies in the traditionally male-dominated engineering, construction, and manufacturing sectors. Times are changing!

Top Gender Empowered Company: Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

This award looks at robust gender advancement in health (hospital management, medical supplies), pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, spas & wellness.

Top Gender Empowered Company: ICT Award

Open to companies involved in information technology hardware, and software and computing service industries that click all the right buttons in terms of women leadership.

Sponsor: ICT WORKS

Top Gender Empowered Company: Transport and Logistics

If your sphere is airlines and airports, rail, road and freight, shipping and ports, import and export, infrastructure or logistics and have put gender empowerment on the fast-track, recognition awaits.

Partner: Labat Africa Ltd

Top Gender Empowered Company: Skills Development Award

This award recognises intensive learnerships and skills programmes that support, for example, youth development, particularly for women, and promote career awareness for women; resulting in enhanced business performance. All sectors are welcome to enter.

Sponsor: Elijah Barayi

Top Gender Empowered Company: Diversity in the Workplace Award

Finalists must be able to demonstrate their commitment to diversity and transformation in the workplace by advancing women, but, within that, all types of women. The judges will look at factors like the company employees’ race, age, ethnicity, disabilities, sexual orientation, educational background, marital status, military experience, parental status, religious beliefs, work experience and job classification.

Sponsor: STANLIB

Top Gender Empowered Company: Fast Growth Women-Owned SMME Award

This award will go to a proudly gender-advancing SMME, operating only in South Africa, that has demonstrated the most success in empowering women in the workplace.

Sponsor: Simply Tech Solutions

Top Gender Empowered Company: Rural Development Award

The organisation that has uplifted communities in rural areas, by developing infrastructure or support for basic services and access
to health, water, education or projects supporting the development of the region. Extra emphasis will be paid to those programs
targeted at women.

Sponsor: North-West READ

Top Gender Empowered Company: Adopt a TVET College Award

The award goes to the organization that has adopted the most TVET colleges and aiding it with financial support and resources,
as voted by TVET Colleges . Organisations nominated for this category will have to qualify according to the general criteria.

Sponsor: HRDC

Top Gender Empowered Company: Energy & Utilities Award

Gender-strong, high-energy companies in this category must demonstrate the implementation of a cost-effective, innovative alternative product or process that, through design improvements, source reduction or control, reduces the amount of energy and/or the amount of emissions to air, water or land from a stationary source, resulting in measurably reduced environmental impact.

Sponsor: Enel Green Power

Top Gender Empowered Company: Corporate Citizenship Award

This benchmark award recognises a project established by a gender-strong company that demonstrates and highlights the role of businesses in improving the communities in which they operate. This award will recognise positive impact on quality of life, economic prosperity or regeneration through direct investment, pro bono work or employee-led initiatives. The award also seeks to demonstrate the link between corporate citizenship and commercial success, from staff engagement and development through to market reputation and brand awareness.

Sponsor: British American Tobacco SA

Top Gender Empowered Company: Infrastructure Development Award

This award recognises organisations involved in innovative, sustainable and efficiency-enhancing infrastructure development. Must show an annual revenue above R35-million

Sponsor: Orvall Corporate Designs

Top Gender Empowered: Top Female Entrepreneur of 2017

The award goes to women entrepreneurs that will be recognised for their contributions to the economy and growing employment in their enterprises. Who demonstrates excellence, ingenuity, achievement, and who is unquestionably a leader in her field.

Sponsor: WDB Investment Holdings & Seed Academy

Top Gender Empowered: Young Achiever of the Year Award (40 years & younger)

This award highlights the outstanding achievement of a young female executive who has contributed to the organisations’ positive success and performance through innovative strategies and solutions. The candidate for this award is a woman to watch – who has shown great potential to lead, has a proven track record, excellent business acumen, strategic foresight, and will be recognised for their contribution to the economy and growing employment in their enterprises.

Sponsor: Ekurhuleni East TVET College

Top Gender Empowered: Public Sector Leader Award (Parastatal & Government)

This award goes to the woman working in the public sector who has demonstrated excellence in performance and delivery; and who, through her public profile, has raised the visibility of women in government.

Sponsor: Eskom

Top Woman in Aviation Award

This award is dedicated to the woman that provides networking, education, mentoring and scholarship opportunities for women who are striving for challenging and fulfilling careers in the aviation and aerospace industries.

Top Gender Empowered: Top Woman in Agriculture Award

This award is reserved for a senior female executive who has demonstrated exceptional performance within the agriculture sector and demonstrated admirable leadership, business acumen and strategic foresight.

Sponsor: DIAGEO

Top Gender Empowered: Top Woman in Property Award

This award is reserved for a senior female executive who has demonstrated exceptional performance within the property sector and demonstrated admirable leadership, business acumen and strategic foresight.

Sponsor: Dormehl Phalane Property Group

Top Gender Empowered: Top Woman in Science Award

This award is reserved for a senior female executive who has demonstrated exceptional performance using science and who has demonstrated admirable leadership, business acumen and strategic foresight.

Sponsor: SANBI

Top Male Driving Gender Empowerment

This award is reserved for exceptional performance by a senior male executive, leader or CEO who has shown leadership,
business acumen, and strategic foresight. Who’s leading the organisation by implementing and advancing gender empowerment
initiatives, policies and programs within the organisation. The leader must demonstrate a passion for the advancement and
equality of women in the workplace and society.

Top Gender Empowered: Public Service (Parastatal; SOE’s)

Top Gender Public Service – The Award goes to the public sector entity that clearly and effectively demonstrates the highest level of gender empowerment. An important factor is measurable and accountable leadership that is committed to developing previously disadvantaged individuals in that department.

Sponsor: Transnet

Top Gender Empowered: Municipality Award

The Award goes to the Municipality that clearly and effectively demonstrates the highest level of gender empowerment, from staff
to suppliers, through its programmes and policies. This Award recognises municipalities of outstanding service delivery and a
reputation that has achieved substantial accomplishments by providing service to disadvantaged South Africans. The winning
municipalities accomplishments should be a shining example for other organisations.

Sponsor: Public Sector Manager

Top Businesswoman of the Year Award

This award is reserved for exceptional performance by a senior female executive who has shown leadership, business acumen, and strategic foresight.

Sponsor: Standard Bank

Top Gender Empowered Company: Business of the Year Award

Top Gender Empowered Company: Business of the Year Award – This award is based on exceptional practices primarily implemented through the HR or transformation divisions within the organisation. Spend and skills development initiatives within the organisation. Demonstrate processes, policies and procedures that increase the employment of women and increase skills development.

Sponsor: Standard Bank

Lifetime Achiever Award

Sponsor: Standard Bank