Leading Tanzanian Women in Financial Services : An Examination of Gender Equality in Tanzania’s Financial Services Sector
There is a strong business and economic case for increasing women’s representation in companies’ leadership, globally, and especially in Africa. In 2019, the International Labor Organization (ILO) conducted a worldwide survey on the impact of gender diversity initiatives on 13,000 enterprises. In th...
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okr-10986-378482022-08-15T21:08:02Z Leading Tanzanian Women in Financial Services : An Examination of Gender Equality in Tanzania’s Financial Services Sector International Finance Corporation GENDER EQUALITY FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP EMPLOYMENT GENDER GAPS CHALLENGES There is a strong business and economic case for increasing women’s representation in companies’ leadership, globally, and especially in Africa. In 2019, the International Labor Organization (ILO) conducted a worldwide survey on the impact of gender diversity initiatives on 13,000 enterprises. In the study, ILO found that approximately 90 percent of companies track the quantitative impact of gender diversity initiatives around promoting women in management, and of those nearly 74 percent saw an increase in profits of between 5 and 20 percent. Given how critical the financial services sector is to economic growth, to help accelerate its progress, International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched several initiatives to better understand the opportunities and constraints to increasing the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women. In Tanzania, for example, IFC’s finance2equal gender program is working in partnership with a selection of companies to reduce gender gaps in the financial services sector through research, peer learning, and firm-level support. Under this initiative, the study summarized in this report investigates gaps in workplace policies and practices as well as differences in the roles of women and men and makes recommendations to reduce gender gaps. 2022-08-09T13:03:55Z 2022-08-09T13:03:55Z 2021-06 Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37848 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Africa Tanzania |
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There is a strong business and economic case for increasing women’s representation in companies’ leadership, globally, and especially in Africa. In 2019, the International Labor Organization (ILO) conducted a worldwide survey on the impact of gender diversity initiatives on 13,000 enterprises. In the study, ILO found that approximately 90 percent of companies track the quantitative impact of gender diversity initiatives around promoting women in management, and of those nearly 74 percent saw an increase in profits of between 5 and 20 percent. Given how critical the financial services sector is to economic growth, to help accelerate its progress, International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched several initiatives to better understand the opportunities and constraints to increasing the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women. In Tanzania, for example, IFC’s finance2equal gender program is working in partnership with a selection of companies to reduce gender gaps in the financial services sector through research, peer learning, and firm-level support. Under this initiative, the study summarized in this report investigates gaps in workplace policies and practices as well as differences in the roles of women and men and makes recommendations to reduce gender gaps. |
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Leading Tanzanian Women in Financial Services : An Examination of Gender Equality in Tanzania’s Financial Services Sector |
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Leading Tanzanian Women in Financial Services : An Examination of Gender Equality in Tanzania’s Financial Services Sector |
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Leading Tanzanian Women in Financial Services : An Examination of Gender Equality in Tanzania’s Financial Services Sector |
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Leading Tanzanian Women in Financial Services : An Examination of Gender Equality in Tanzania’s Financial Services Sector |
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leading tanzanian women in financial services : an examination of gender equality in tanzania’s financial services sector |
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