In the study "Can Africa claim the21st century?" the author argues on the enormousunexploited potential the region has in its people, "ahidden growth reserve" as he refers to them, and, mostimportantly in its women, who now provide more than half theregion's labor, but who lack equal access to education,concluding that gender equality can be a potential force foraccelerated poverty reduction in Africa. The note looks atwomen and men in African economies, identifying that womenwork far longer hours than men, being prominent inagriculture, which leads to estimate that women contributeabout two thirds of the total rural transport effort. Casestudies show how gender inequality limits growth, and thenote further compares this reality to the potentialproductivity, given a gender-inclusive growth, suggestingkey tasks should focus on systematic sex-disaggregation ofdata, to include economic production data and integration ofgender modules in statistical surveys, so as to be reflectedin national accounts.
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