Women In Economics / Inclusion and gender

Legal Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment

Katharine Christopherson

June 3, 2022

Seventy-five percent of economies in Francophone Africa have regulations which restrict women’s employment, mirroring a 1954 ordinance from the former federation of French West Africa. (iStock Images / guenterguni)

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