Tunisia’s economy may be overlooking one of its biggest growth drivers: women. A new analysis by the World Bank Group, prepared with Tunisia’s National Institute of Statistics and supported by the Maghreb Facility for Women’s Economic and Social Inclusion, shows that women remain largely absent from the workforce despite major progress in education and legal rights. Today, only about one in four working-age women in Tunisia is part of the labor force.
This low participation is not just a social issue, it is an economic one. Experts…