50 Over 50 – Success At Every Age
Forbes Africa|February - March 2023
Introducing Forbes Africa's 50 Over 50 List - Our first-ever compilation of 50 women over the age of 50 scaling newer heights and inspiring the next cadre of leadership on the african continent. Age is just a number for them and retirement not an option or the end of the road, as they continue to power their way into history books and the hearts of africans. From business tycoons to technocrats, founders to C-suite executives, and activists to entertainers, they have broken barriers throughout their impactful careers, and taken up spaces to ensure others have a voice in those very spaces and beyond. Read on: the senior-most change-maker on this list is 98 and still unstoppable!
50 Over 50 – Success At Every Age

We are in 2023 W talking about mainstreaming electric cars, virtual reality, drone deliveries and space travel.

Sure, NASA is talking about landing a woman on the moon by 2024, but back on earth, gender disparity is still a norm, a discussion point, an unfinished business. As it has been for a long time And sadly, as reports suggest, as it will remain.

The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022 states that the gender gap globally has been closed by 68.1%, but at the current rate of progress, it will take another 132 years to reach full parity.

The statistics speak. But so do generations of women wanting the needle to move, faster.

Although no country has yet achieved full gender parity, the top 10 economies have closed at least 80% of their gender gaps, with Iceland (90.8%) leading the global ranking. The only sub-Saharan African countries to make the top 10 in narrowing the gender gap are Rwanda (81.1%, 6th) and Namibia (80.7%, 8th).

In an analysis by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), their gender parity index (GPI) report showed that 30 (66.67%) countries have increased gender parity while 15 (33.33%) have decreased gender parity. For ACCORD, this is an average increase for the continent when comparing the gender gap between 2013 and 2021.

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