The Meera Kaul Foundation continues to strengthen their global initiative of empowering women in the corporate world with the newly launched Gender Bias Ranking App and web portal. Parity measures gender bias in workspaces across the globe, evaluates companies based on their history to exclude women in leadership positions, records real data about sexual harassment...
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Desirée Vlekken: Nurturing Remembrance
Memories are precious something we are all so keenly aware of. With memories, we are able to think fondly of days gone by, and people who have shared a part of our lives. With memories, we can contemplate on how far weve gone, how much of us has changed, and what direction our lives...
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Brndstr: Enabling Influence
Tell us about Brndstr – when was it launched and what was the idea behind it? Helen: Brndstr was born to help brands turn their existing social networks into brand ambassadors. Rather than a brand market themselves, by allowing their audience to do it for them in return for a reward, they are able to...
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Education and Women in Crisis
The debilitating economies of underdeveloped countries, crippling third world debt crisis, terrorism and the ravages of war define the world we live in. A staggering 51.2 million people worldwide have become casualties of conflict and persecution, and are currently living under the worst conditions imaginable. Of this huge number of people, almost 80 percent comprise...
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Improving Lives of the Stigmatised
Maha Tazi talks to eminent Moroccan activist and winner of the prestigious Opus Prize Aicha Chenna on gaining inspiration from a sense of justice deeply rooted in the value systems of religions. Aïcha Ech Channa is the Founder and President of Solidarité Féminine, providing services in Casablanca, Morocco, to help unmarried women with children gain...
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Disrupting the Status Quo in STEM
It is a well-known fact that economic emancipation in modern society, be it on an individual or mass level, relies heavily on innovation and technological advancement. Equally important is the inclusion and active participation of women in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields both in education and vocation in order to truly...
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Report: Empowering Women in the UAE
Celebrating National Womens Achievements ahead of the UAE's Government Summit 2015 Ahead of the Government Summit, UAE womens attainment in terms of education, labor participation and political representation are at the forefront of the countrys major achievements, report by Maha Tazi. Education According to the 2013 Global Gender Gap Report, the UAE is the...
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Connecting Women, Transforming Lives
WAKE stands for Womens Alliance for Knowledge Exchange. It is a non-profit organization which we founded in January 2015. It is actually an extension of what Heather Ramsey and I have been doing for the last 15 years. The two of us have worked together on a number of women in STEM programmes that focus...
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Women journalists: un-silent voices in the Middle East
Where freedom of expression in general is usually quelled at state level especially in some ultra-conservative Middle Eastern societies, it is hard to imagine just how women can even venture into the sometimes-frightening world of journalistic practice. And while the softening effect of a female presence in what could otherwise have been a hostile news...
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REPORT: Climate Change is not Gender-Neutral
Climate change is a serious problem. It becomes even more serious when it impacts different populations disproportionately. Between 1990 and 1999, two billion people across the globe were affected by natural or technological disasters, comprising more than 600,000 fatalities worldwide. More recently, in 2013, a total of 96.5 million people across the globe were directly...