Census Finds Women Run 80% of Ghana’s Pavement and Mobile Businesses

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/census-finds-women-run-80-of-ghanas-pavement-and-mobile-businesses/Women dominate Ghana’s informal trading sector to a degree that official statistics have never before captured in full, with new data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) showing they account for nearly 80 percent of workers in open-space businesses and around 77.5 percent of mobile traders, while also revealing that more than 2,000 children between […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/census-finds-women-run-80-of-ghanas-pavement-and-mobile-businesses/


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