April 1, 2024GEM Digest of the Month - Published monthly since December 2009 Contents

The success of the Quebec pilot, combined with the identified need across the agriculture sector for more training opportunities for women led to the expansion of the program Canada-wide and the launch of the AgriMentor program for 2024. [...] No equality for working women in any country in the world, study reveals world-study-reveals-world-bank-gender-gap No country in the world affords women the same opportunities as men in the workforce, according to a new report from the World Bank, which found the global gender gap was fa. [...] The 10th edition of the women, business and the law report, published on Monday, also for the first time assessed the gap between laws and the policies put in place to implement them. [...] The removal of subsidy on petrol products, together with a depreciation of the naira, has resulted in a steep increase in the cost of food and transportation. [...] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in partnership with UN Women, presented a study on the state of progress towards gender equality in the region, which highlighted the gaps that hinder the rights of women, girls and adolescents.