By Hope Ashike In many parts of the world, including Nigeria, women often face the barriers of discrimination and persistent gender inequalities which deny them access to key positions in the corporate world as well as access to finance or the formal economy. Women make up almost half of the world’s working-age population of nearly 5 billion people. But only about 50 percent of those women participate in the labour force, compared with 80 percent of men, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF’s research…
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