page_title: Gender equality in Ivory Coast
section_title: Women's movements
hierarchical_section_title: Gender equality in Ivory Coast / Women's movements
caption_attribution_description: English: Leaving her family for a 10/4 work/rest days far from home in a small town at 200 km from Abidjan, an Ivorian woman in a mining company should be celebrate for her courage and sacrifice to help her family. Miss Ekepe Lydie is an operator at the process plant. Every day, she is in charge of the grade control and the cyanide concentration. Being in contact with chemicals could be dangerous but she knows very well how to respect the safety rules. This is an image of "African people at work" from Ivory Coast
context_page_description: There are multiple factors which contribute to gender equality in Ivory Coast. The history of the Ivory Coast still influences gender inequality in the country. A large factor which also pushes the nation back to be a strong economic player is the lack of education especially for women. It starts from primary education up to higher level education where girls are obviously disadvantaged compared to boys. 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.
  Due to the Ivorian Civil War, gender based violence has increased, especially during and after this period of time. A lot of Ivorian women have to deal with domestic violence. Discussion groups have been created to address the issues and spread attention. Furthermore a lot of global movements and campaigns have been invented to promote gender parity in Côte d'Ivoire.
context_section_description: UN Women reported that in November 2017, there was a "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign" campaign in the Ivory Coast. The campaign was part of the HeForShe global movement.
  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." Yai and other activists also petitioned the government to withdraw a discriminatory divorce bill that had been proposed, which would have allowed husbands to easily divorce their wives for alleged adultery, while allowing women the right to divorce only if the husband was "caught in a sexual act at the couple's home with the same woman more than once."
  In 2018, Côte d'Ivoire became the second country to become part of the African Women Leaders Network, an initiative to support women's leadership. The project, with international and government backing, works to promote "good governance, peace and stability" focusing on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
caption: Ivorian worker in mining industry.
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