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Financial services are evolving at a rapid pace, but the gender gaps in accessing them aren’t closing. We talk to Greta Bull, CEO of CGAP, about what the future of financial inclusion holds for women.
A new report from the World Bank shows the gender wealth gap costs the global economy $23,620 per person. Now, major organizations are calling on world leaders to act to improve economic opportunities for women.
We talk to Caren Grown, the World Bank’s senior director for gender, about why the financial inclusion gap between men and women hasn’t closed in 11 years, and what we might be able to do about it.
The third edition of the World Bank’s Global Findex has shown no worldwide progress on women’s financial inclusion, despite strong gains in India.
The World Bank has found that the majority of the world’s countries restrict women economically in some way, with 104 countries preventing women from doing the same work as men.
For years, international development has focused on giving women traditionally ‘female’ jobs in the name of ‘empowerment.’ But donors are increasingly realizing the error of leaving women’s rights out of their programs, writes gender and development professional Coby Jones.
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