Africa: Women Entrepreneurial Skills Not Fully Supported

opinion

While on a work assignment to administer monitoring and evaluation questionnaires on the progress of the SADC protocol on gender and development in Midvaal one of Gauteng's town I was disappointed to see the struggles of local women entrepreneurship. It made me realise that entrepreneurship policies are not fully gender responsive.

Entrepreneurship for African women gained priority in the late 1970s. Currently academics, aid workers and African feminists advocate for the spirit of entrepreneurial women which summaries the capacity and willingness of women to develop, organise and manage businesses along with its risks in order to make a profit.

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