U.N. Women's Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has called for more women in leadership roles to help the COVID-19 recovery. 119 nations have never had a woman leader.
AfCFTA will not only have an important boosting effect for African businesses, livelihoods and exports, it aims to be an example of cooperation the world can follow.
“Our reconstruction shows that the first half of the Holocene was colder than in industrial times due to the cooling effects of remnant ice sheets from the previous glacial period contrary to previous reconstructions of global temperatures,” says lead author Samantha Bova, a postdoctoral researcher associate in the lab of coauthor Yair Rosenthal, professor in the department of marine and coastal sciences and department of earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Scientists used marine calcareous (calcium carbonate-containing) fossils from foraminifers single-celled organisms that live at the ocean surface to reconstruct the temperature histories of the two most recent warm intervals on Earth. They are the Last Interglacial period from 128,000 to 115,000 years ago and the Holocene.
According to the International Labor Organization, Jordan has the highest percentage of female managers, but only five countries have reached gender parity.