{"id":7758,"date":"2020-01-27T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"lets-celebrate-quality-not-just-quantity-of-women-owned-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/27\/lets-celebrate-quality-not-just-quantity-of-women-owned-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Celebrate Quality, Not Just Quantity of Women-Owned Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>By Dorothy Tuma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the face of it, the progress is impressive: four out of the top 10 countries with high women business owner percentages are in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, since the recent release of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/resource\/main\/main\/id\/00121847.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs<\/a>, Ugandans have been proudly sharing the report on social media. The Mastercard Index profiles the progress and achievements of women-owned enterprises in 58 countries around the world. It also measures changes in the environments within which these businesses operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this 3rd edition of the report,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202001150007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uganda<\/a>, Ghana,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201801040347.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Botswana<\/a>&nbsp;and Malawi are among the top ten countries with high women business owner percentages. In Uganda and Ghana, nearly 4 of every 10 businesses are woman-owned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a commendable achievement, especially in light of the high hurdles that women business owners in Africa must overcome in order to successfully pursue their business dreams. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202001240180.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dorothy Tuma On the face of it, the progress is impressive: four out of the top 10 countries with high women business owner percentages are in Africa. Indeed, since&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}