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...
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Gazan Women Enterprise: Promise & Roadblocks
The Middle East has traditionally been a region engulfed in political unrest and discord. Surprisingly though, it is also an area burgeoning with immense potential as far as women entrepreneurship is concerned. With countries like the UAE transforming from a frontier to an emerging market and Palestine, with its remarkable rate of women...
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Engendering diversity for positive economic growth
Since time immemorial, a womans socio-political status in society has been pre-determined by widely-practiced patriarchal hegemony that neither knows boundaries nor geography. Historically stemming from agrarian societies where men performed hard labor outside the home, and their softer counterparts were the women homemakers and caregivers. Patriarchy, however, remains deeply entrenched in the social fibers of...
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Making it in the corporate world
Climbing the corporate ladder is not only about hard work or burning the midnight oil; it is that and even more. Indeed action does speak louder than words. You need to have the entire package a burning passion, ambition to succeed, a vision to sustain, a willingness to go the extra mile and most...
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The Digital Gender Divide
ICTs have revolutionized the way we live our lives. Smart technologies and new media has not only empowered us socially; but have played a pivotal role in fueling global economic activity. Viable growth within the constraints of the planets finite resources is only plausible if the infinite potential of human resource, particularly that of the female gender...
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Roadmap to Successful Entrepreneurship
Starting your own business is not a piece of cake. Yes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, especially if one compares it with having a tediously mundane office job; not to mention scores of glorified success stories of SMEs available on the web, tempting one to take the plunge...
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Visionary Women in the UAE
Ranked number one in the world for treating women with respect, the UAE is among a handful of countries, which have passed legislation requiring corporate boards to include a minimum percentage of women. In one of his speeches, His Excellency Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Makhtoum Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and...
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Sights & Sounds UAE
Capturing the UAE in all its glory on the auspicious occasion of its 43rd National Day. Photography by Ayesha Asim.