Women Financial Empowerment Key
Ensuring that women become financially empowered and independent has been described as one way of boosting their confidence and thus enabling them to compete with their male counterparts for leadership positions. The sentiments were shared by the Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Botswana, Ms. Botlogile Tshireletso on February 9 at a roundtable on empowering women and local institutions to lead. The roundtable was hosted by the embassy of the United States of America. Ms. Tshireletso said the Department of Gender Affairs was one vehicle through which empowerment and financial independence of women could be achieved as the department had sanctioned programmes dedicated to uplifting the lives of women by encouraging women to take the lead in various sectors including business ownership and sustainability. The assistant minister, who is also MP for Mahalapye East – Botswana, said one other achievement aimed at empowering women was the development of…
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