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Women in Africa’s digital economy
Globally, women make up roughly 30 percent of the technology workforce and only about 22 percent of workers in artificial intelligence. Women also account for just 28 percent of engineering graduates worldwide.
Kenya’s digital economy tells a paradoxical story about women. While women helped build the foundations of Africa’s most innovative tech ecosystem—from early mobile money adoption to civic-technology platforms—they remain strikingly under-represented in the formal technology workforce.
As the world marks International Women’s Month, the real question is not whether women can lead Africa’s digital future. It is whether the systems governing economic opportunity are designed to allow them to.
