Getting to the last mile, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
As we discuss innovation and economic opportunity for women in this Summit, letthis fundamental question guide us: What are the conditions that make it possible for a woman not only to earn an income, but to exercise agency, make choices, be safe, have a voice, and truly enjoy the economic power she has acquired?
Violence, unpaid care, restrictive social norms, unequal household power, lack of property rights, and limits on mobility are not peripheral “gender issues”; they are economic infrastructure.
We cannot close an economic gender gap without addressing the social and power relations that continually recreate it.
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