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Essay On Women Empowerment In Africa

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Africa is one of the continents whereby gender discrimination against women is still predominant despite the fact that they play a crucial role in Africa’s development. Women are the gateway to Africa improving its economic growth rate, productivity or even elimination of poverty. It is estimated that women provide 70 % of the total agricultural labor and that they are accounted for 90% of all the food produce in Africa. Women also the majority of businesses in the informal sector. Despite this, women are the majority affected by poverty, drought and famine. This can be attributed to some barriers that prevent them from being able to really benefit from their hard work. Human rights issues or challenges is a major barrier.
Access to important resources such as education is one of the challenges. Measures have been put in place by organizations and governments to ensure that the percentage of the girl child that has access to education increases. In spite of this, the percentage of illiteracy level among women is much higher compared to their male counterparts. This further increases the gender imbalance. Without the knowledge or skills obtained from learning it proves difficult for these women to be able to start, run or manage business …show more content…

SMES are one of the tools that can be used to reduce the poverty levels in Africa. With the increased women empowerment in Africa, most of them are turning into entrepreneurs. One of the major challenge facing entrepreneurs from accessing markets foreign or developed economies is non-tariff barriers to trade. Nontariff barriers include quotas, embargoes, sanctions, levies and other restrictions and are frequently used by large and developed economies. Through standards, prevent of non-tariff barriers is possible. Standards harmonize the requirements in a manner that promotes fair competition. Therefore creating equal opportunities for

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