Many women and girls also face high levels of sexual violence, partly a legacy of the use of rape as a weapon during the. The Equality Act also aims to improve women's access to finance in a country where they have often been unable to get credit.
Employers who breach the new quotas face fines of up to 50.000 leones . Sierra Leone is ranked 182nd out of 189 countries on the UN's 2020 Gender Development Index. Nearly half of the countries in the bottom 20 are in West Africa.Sierra Leone has passed a law requiring public and private entities to reserve 30 percent of their jobs for women in a bid to tackle gender imbalances in a male-dominated society.
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