Yet the employment rate for women is still no more than 46 per cent, 20 points less than for men. It is lower than in practically every other European country, especially in the higher positions and among women with children. Holding education and experience constant, women’s earnings are 10 per cent lower than men’s.
In addition to efforts at monetary integration in West Africa, the African Union is supportive of other similar efforts elsewhere in the continent to evolve a single currency and an African Central Bank.