One of the key areas where women are disadvantaged in the VC workplace in Africa and elsewhere is job progression, and retention of female colleagues is notoriously low in this space. Female fund managers are very much in the minority worldwide. In the US, only nine per cent of decision makers in the VC space are women. The Diversity dividend: Female fund managers in Africa series looks at firms that recognise this truth, and put diversity front and centre. That then impacts the pipeline of women that are able to go through to those senior roles,” Ishmael said.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 11, 2022 07:29 UTC