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Getting to Equal in Africa: Closing the Gender Gap for Women and Girls

To get progress towards gender equality in Africa, we need to:

1. Enhance women’s voice,
2. Work on adolescent empowerment,
3. Improve economic opportunities and health and education.

Getting to Equal in Africa: Closing the Gender Gap for Women and Girls

Submitted by Markus Goldstein On Sat, 04/21/2012 Tweet Widget2 Comments The recent World Development Report on gender equality gives us some good reasons to be pessimistic about the state of gender relations in Africa. Over a million women in Africa die too early each year–many of them due to com…