Editing Economy of Uganda (section)

== Women in the economy ==
The agriculture sector of the Ugandan economy, which composes roughly 40% of the country's GDP, is largely fulfilled by women laborers, especially in managing products, marketing, and the crop sub-sector.'''<ref name=":022">{{Cite book|title=Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda: Unleashing the Power of Women|last1=Ellis|first1=Amanda|last2=Manuel|first2=Claire|last3=Blackden|first3=C. Mark|publisher=The World Bank|year=2006|isbn=0-8213-6384-0|location=Washington D.C.|pages=27–37}}</ref>''' 76% of women work in the agriculture sector and roughly 66% of men do, and women provide for 80% of food crops and 60% of traditional exports such as coffee or tea.<ref name=":1" /> In the formal, non-agricultural economy, men constitute 61% of the workforce, whereas women predominate the informal economy, and this can be attributed to the lack of equity between men and women in the country.<ref name=":022" /> The Uganda Bureau of Statistics reported, when looking at the urban workforce in 2015, 88.6% of women were employed informally, and 84.2% of men were.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2017|title=2017 Statistical Report|url=https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/03_20182017_Statistical_Abstract.pdf|journal=Uganda Bureau of Statistics|pages=169}}</ref> Women are unable to enter into certain sectors, especially in the formal economy, due to the inability to provide substantial initial funding, and remain in the trade and service sectors of the economy. Comparatively, men dominate the more profitable sectors, such as manufacturing.<ref name=":1" /> Women traders make up 70% of those in markets and 40% in shops in addition to dominating other sectors such as the service industry, crafts, and tailoring.<ref name="Lange 2003 1–8">{{Cite journal|last=Lange|first=Siri|date=2003|title=When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala|url=https://www.cmi.no/publications/1563-when-women-grow-wings|journal=CMI Report|language=en|volume=R 2003: 8|pages=1–8}}</ref>

Women are often undervalued in data compilation, particularly when considering their role in their domestic home lives. For example, women commonly match the contribution of their husbands to their familial income, if not provide more, when taking into consideration the value of their labor and the profits made from selling excess food.<ref name=":1" /> Urban women on average earn between 50% and 70% of a household's income.<ref name="Lange 2003 1–8"/> Women are also discredited in data collection due to biases of data collectors resulting in inaccurate reports, as well as income being measured per house, rather than separating by gender.<ref name=":1" /> The barriers women face in furthering their entrepreneurial careers are different from those faced by men; this is inherent in the biased culture and institutions plaguing Uganda despite the passing of somewhat progressive policies, especially with the 1985 transition of government to the National Resistance Movement party.'''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guma|first=Prince Karakire|date=7 September 2015|title=Business in the urban informal economy: barriers to women's entrepreneurship in Uganda|journal=[[Journal of African Business]]|volume=16|issue=3|pages=305–321|doi=10.1080/15228916.2015.1081025|s2cid=216149652 }}</ref>'''