Women increase participation in economic activity

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Efforts by Botswana to increase female participation in the economy has paid dividends as the country moved 40 places up in the 2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report.

Botswana landed on the eighth spot in the Economic Participation and Opportunity category ahead of Kenya with an overall ranking of 51, moving up 34 places from last year.

The report also confirms that Botswana has been making significant strides in achieving gender equality as in the overall ranking out of the 142 countries surveyed.

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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