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In Africa, where women make up 45% of entrepreneurs — the highest rate globally — gender disparity in access to funding remains a significant barrier to economic equity and growth. (Getty Images)
ANITA BOSCH

Excluded from the economy, but ‘women work all the time’

More women than men are unemployed, partly because they are engaged in unpaid labour: caregiving, cooking and cleaning

  • Anathi Madubela
  • Sarah Smit
6 min read