Women in Egypt Via Wikimedia CommonsCAIRO - 7 January 2018:The Business for Africa and the World summit, Africa 2018, focuses during its first day on the theme “Women Empowering Africa.” The summit will discuss ways to further empower African women and to enhance their engagement as agents for change in the continent through active participation in shaping economic and social policies. As a result, in women hold close to one-third of the seats in parliaments in 11 African countries, more than in Europe. African women also have made significant strides in the continental political body, the African Union (AU), in 2003 five women and five men were elected as AU commissioners. According the AfDB Gender Index, African women are both economically active and highly entrepreneurial. The challenge in Africa is not one of encouraging women to be more economically active, but rather to remove the barriers to women becoming more efficient business leaders.Outside agriculture, African women’s labor force participation rates are high throughout Africa, except in North Africa.

Source: Egypt Today January 07, 2019 10:30 UTC