Gender gaps in Togo cut across many dimensions. Inequality starts in childhood, when girls are disadvantaged in access to schooling because of prevalent social norms and gender roles. It continues into adolescence, when a larger share of girls starts dropping out of school (with fewer than one in two completing secondary education), unable to continue education because of a number of factors, including child marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and time use patterns shaped by gender norms. In adolescence and adulthood, women face the constraints of limited education and economic opportunities, restrictive gender roles that leave women little time for participation in the labor force, financial inequities, high levels of acceptance of violence against women, health risks, and a lack of agency and decision-making capacity.High prevalence rates of child marriage (with 1 in 4 women ages 20–24 in Togo married by age 18) and adolescent fertility (88.3 per 1,000 women ages 15–19 in 2019) not only increase health risks for women but also reduce the amount of time they have to fully participate in education and in economic opportunities. Women (ages 24–44 years) spend about five times more hours weekly than men in unpaid domestic work, affecting the quality of their labor force participation. Women’s dis￾advantages in access to quality jobs—indicated by disproportionate levels of infor￾mality, vulnerable, and self-employment—limited land ownership, and challenges in accessing finance and productive assets further trap them in poverty: only 9.2 percent of women own land (compared to 39.7 percent of men), and 25.21 percent of women have a bank account (according to data from the 2018/2019 Enquête Harmonisée sur les Conditions de Vie des Menages, EHCVM). Different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) are widespread (affecting more than a third of Togolese women), and social, religious, cultural, and geographical factors further amplify gender inequities in specific contexts. As a result, women in Togo, and rural women in particular, have severely limited agency and decision-making capacity both outside and within the household.