BCG: Africa’s Gender Parity Delayed 50 Years, Digital Entrepreneurship Offers Hope - Tech

BCG: Africa’s Gender Parity Delayed 50 Years, Digital Entrepreneurship Offers Hope - Tech

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released a new report, Financing Women’s Digital Entrepreneurship: A Pathway to Closing Africa’s Economic Gender Gap, revealing that women’s economic participation in Africa has fallen 0.6 percentage points below 2022 levels, extending the region’s timeline to reach economic parity from 120 years to approximately 170 years. Source: BCG Report The report draws on BCG’s Africa Women’s Voices Survey 2025, which sur…

Africa's path to gender economic parity has been pushed back by 50 years, but digital entrepreneurship offers a way forward - SME Tech Guru

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has today released a new report, Financing Women’s Digital Entrepreneurship: A Pathway to Closing Africa’s Economic Gender Gap, revealing that women’s economic participation in Africa has fallen 0.6 percentage points below 2022 levels, extending the region’s timeline to reach economic parity from 120 years to approximately 170 years. The report draws on BCG’s Africa Women’s Voices Survey 2025, which surveyed around …

Africa’s path to gender economic parity pushed back 50 years

Women’s economic participation in Africa has fallen 0,6 percentage points below 2022 levels – extending the region’s timeline to reach economic parity from 120 years to approximately 170 years. This is according to Boston Consulting Group’s latest report – Financing Women’s Digital Entrereneurship: A Pathway to Closing Africa’s Economic Gender Gap – drawing on the company’s  Africa Women’s Voices Survey 2025 which surveyed around 3 000 women and…

Africa's Path To Gender Economic Parity...

Women-led startups generate twice the revenue per dollar invested, yet receive less than 1% of venture capital in Africa Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has today released a new report, Financing Women’s Digital Entrepreneurship: A Pathway to Closing Africa’s Economic Gender Gap, revealing that women’s economic participation in Africa has fallen 0.6 percentage points below 2022 levels, […]