Gender equality in Ivory Coast

[1] A large factor which also pushes the nation back to be a strong economic player is the lack of education especially for women.

[3] Arranged marriages for girls who are often under the age of 18 and lack of knowledge about laws and their rights also promote gender inequality.

A lot of girls leave the circle of the family less than boys so possibilities to speak and practice language decrease automatically.

Because girls are told to hold themselves back and try not to stand out also culturally, female students developed a passive attitude overtime and started to speak less in class.

There are multiple factors which play along the different education in terms of religion, ethnicity, engagement in working field and politics.

There are recently more initiatives to end child marriage, among others the African Union campaign launched by the Ivory Coast on 5 December 2017.

As source and transit of these events Ivorian women faced a lot of different forms of physical violence.

This emphasis would make clear that the disruption of routine in lives through violence and the effect on family structures influence the Ivorian life drastically.

[14] The Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cacao and cashews and has a subsistence agriculture-based economy.

The World Bank report called for greater access to education for girls; for policies to decrease gender discrimination in the economy (e.g., by increasing women's participation in the civil service and the private sector, by reducing wage disparities, and by increasing access to health care (especially maternal healthcare and family planning).

"[17] UN Women reported that in November 2017, there was a "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign" in the Ivory Coast.

[18] In the 1990s, Tomam Constance Yai, the head of the Ivoirian Association for the Defense of Women's Rights, campaigned against polygamy, which was common at the time in both rural and urban Ivory Coast—the "phenomenon of multiple wives, mistresses and concubines that she says perpetuates the sexual privileges of men while stunting the lives of African women."