🎙️ Live Now: Women and the Everyday Tax Burden

This episode of the NETRIGHT Podcast explores the hidden tax burdens that women face in their everyday lives in Ghana, highlighting how market levies, informal fees, and consumption taxes on essential goods disproportionately affect women, particularly those working in the informal economy. Through a feminist and intersectional perspective, the discussion examines the links between gender equality, tax justice, domestic resource mobilisation, public finance, and economic inclusion. The episode demonstrates how inequitable tax systems reduce women's incomes, livelihoods, and financial security while reinforcing social and economic inequalities. It calls for gender-responsive taxation, inclusive fiscal policy, and equitable tax reforms that advance women's economic empowerment, strengthen public services, and support sustainable development in Ghana and across Africa.