New report highlights gender disparity in regional jobs

A group of women doing manual work in Yala swamp, Alego Usonga to fend for their families. [File, Standard]

A new report by the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (Igad) has shown that more women than men were unemployed between 2012 and 2022.

According to the Igad Statistical Yearbook: Facts and Figures, more men (75.4 per cent) participated in the labour force compared to 63.8 per cent of women during the review period.