African Women Worst Affected by Global Economic Crisis

Publisher: 

IPS News

Author: 
Kudzai Makombe
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
The global financial crisis is on everyone's lips. With first hand reports of job losses, house foreclosures and citizens living on credit card debt, the impact of the crisis on the individual worker in the developed world is clear. In Africa, there have been threats of closures and retrenchments in the Zambian copper mines and Botswana's diamond mines, amongst others. But the impact on the individual citizen and African women in particular, given the existing gender inequalities, has not been well documented.

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