Stakeholders in the women empowerment campaign have listed lack of access to capital, inadequate support and domestic activities as major hindrance to achieving gender equality.
Speaking at a webinar organised by First Bank in collaboration with UN Women Empowerment, tagged ” Invest in Woman: Accelerate Progress,” experts said inadequate participation of woman in both political and economic issues made it difficult to achieve sustainable economic development across the world.
The Country Representative to United Nations (UN) Women Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ms Beatrice Eyong, said there was need to invest in women personal development in the areas of education and leadership for them to have marketable skills.
She stated that investment in technology would go a long way to liberate women from child care services and other family activities.
She said investment in women became necessary because there is huge inequality in political, economic and digital space.
She added that available statistic showed that about 22 per cent of women are working in digital space while 20 per cent top positions are occupied by woman in the financial industry.
