As part of its continuous mission to support and advance women’s sports in the Arab world, the Sharjah Women’s Sports Foundation (SWSF) highlighted the emirates milestones under the ambit of the UAE and Arab female sports, during its participation at the first International Conference for Arab Womens Sports in Cairo, Egypt. This was organised on...
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Geopolitical fractures, economic uncertainties, climate change impediments to sustainable development in the MENA
April 4th, 2019, Dead Sea (Jordan):Business leaders in the Middle East and North Africa view economic and governance issues as the primary risk in the region, but may underestimate the risk of climate change. That is the finding of a new analysis of regional risks by the World Economic Forum published today. The Middle East...
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Major global corporations receive F on gender pay score card
Despite Recent Progress, Arjuna Capital/Proxy Impact Report Card Measuring 46 Companies on Pay Equity Shows Widespread Failure to Adequately Address Investor Risks; Goldman Sachs, Oracle, McDonalds and Walmart Among Those Failing. Citigroup only company to get an "A." April 2nd, 2019, Boston (USA): On the eve of Equal Pay Day, a new Arjuna Capital/Proxy Impact...
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Enabling Gender Diversity in Pakistani Techpreneurship
April 1st, 2019, Karachi (Pakistan): Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited announces the launch of Women in Tech;a global programme aimed at supporting greater diversity in gender representation within technology based entrepreneurship (or those using technology to scale their existing businesses) through provision ofpre-seed funding, mentoring, acceleration, and post-accelerator commercial support to build and scale their entrepreneurial...
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Abu Dhabi University hosts International Day to celebrate diversity, promote tolerance
March 24th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): As part of its efforts to spread a culture of tolerance and inclusivity in line with the Year of Tolerance, Abu Dhabi University (ADU) hosted an International Day for the ADU community to celebrate diversity and promote exchange and understanding between different nationalities. With more than 14 different countries...
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Another medal for UAE at Special Olympics World Games UAE
March 17th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): The UAE’s Hamda Al Hosani will have to make room for another medal in her cabinet after winning gold in the 200m final at Special Olympics World Games. At Dubai Police Stadium today, the 30-year-old sprinter crossed the finish line in an impressive time of 32.14 seconds. Canada’s Eva Bell...
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Women of the Channel
March 8th, 2019 was International Womens Day, a time when the world recognizes the contributions and accomplishments of women across the globe and acknowledges the continuing strides being made toward a more gender-balanced world. Xerox has consistently worked to build a workforce that exemplifies and values diversity at all organizational levels, from its support of women in...
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Women in Finance
Women have long been underserved by the financial advisory sector – but this is now changing. This is the assessment of deVere Switzerland, part of one of the worlds largest independent financial advisory organisations, which recently held the Women in Finance summit in Zurich ahead of International Womens Day today. deVere Switzerland Area Manager, Daniel OLeary, notes:...
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UAE Women in Civil Engineering
March 13th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): The Department of Civil Engineering at Abu Dhabi University (ADU) hosted the 2ndannual fib-UAE Women in Civil Engineering (WICE) Forum. The forum was organized by Dr. Reem Sabouni, Associate Professor and Chair of Women Engineersfib-UAE,and it waspart of the fib-UAE engineering week,held in collaboration with the fibinternational, the fib-UAE...
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Culture of Equality Is A Powerful Multiplier of Workplace Innovation, Accenture
March 10th, 2019Dubai (UAE): Aworkplace culture of equalityis a powerful multiplier of innovation and growth, according to new research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Published today in the companys Getting to Equal 2019 report,the research found that employees innovation mindsettheir willingness and ability to innovateis six times higher in companies with a robust culture of equality, where everyone...