International Women’s Day in the Caribbean: Reflections on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Navigating the Workplace

Women have an essential role to play in order to build a Caribbean that is resilient and realizes its growth potential. The region has made substantial progress toward gender equality, particularly in women’s education achievement and joining the workforce.

In a poll of @WBCaribbean Twitter followers, 67.4% of respondents indicated that access to finance is still a barrier to women entrepreneurs, and 50% voted that harassment is a main barrier facing Caribbean women. Women today have only three-quarters of the legal rights that men have, according to a new index released by the World Bank

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1 Comment

  1. Kermit
    March 9, 2020

    But dno about 4 years ago there about it was such a big thing for all you, purple cloth, marching in road and all that jazz. All of all you in Dominica is just about politics because all u knew why all you were doing that. It was because of that particular incident.

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