Women entrepreneurs are less likely to quit their business than men are, new research shows. Men are 14 percent more likely to leave the businesses they set-up than women, the study found. Muntasir Alam, and Dr. Dilani Jayawarna, of the University of Liverpool Management School, analyzed data on 1,523 business […]
The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) government in collaboration with Access Bank has launched LSETF W Initiative to empower women in the state. The initiative, which has a total loan portfolio of N10 billion, will be available for businesses that a woman holds at least 50% ownership share […]
(Amanda Dambuza, Entrepreneur, Businesswoman and Author of “Baked in Pain. Lee Ann Lancaster; Chief Growth Officer; Mama Money. Dr. Adriana Marais, founder of #ProudlyHuman, Astronaut candidate with the Mars One Project Shamina Singh, Executive Vice President, Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth at WEF on Africa) Gender inequality has been found […]
The president of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, attended a G7 Summit session where he presented the Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative to the press, alongside French President Macron. The pan-African AFAWA initiative was launched in May 2016 at the Annual Meetings of the African […]
Finance is a feminist issue. As the FT’s personal finance editor, I feel qualified to say that the financial system frequently fails women. It is structurally rigged against us — so much so, that “having children” could top any list of the financial mistakes women make. It’s certainly not topping […]
You hear it all the time. To get a great job, you’ve got to network—make contacts, know the right people. You know the drill. But a study out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the kind of networking that works best for men isn’t enough for women. Women need […]
International news media have reported on Friday that the names of Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley are being considered as possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Most news outlets such as Business Insider, South China […]
It’s sometimes hard to tell how things are going in Nigeria, even when you live here. People’s experiences differ, with fates quickly rising and falling, sometimes with which government is in power. Amid this, Stears analysed the potential state of the economy in 2019, and the picture was not pretty. […]
In 2015, a number of major companies jumped on the bandwagon to provide generous parental leave. Given that the United States–unlike the rest of the developed world–doesn’t have a federally mandated paid leave policy, this perk was seen by many as a way that companies compete for talent. And it’s not […]
