Women Engineers Pakistan and Ananke Magazine strive towards one mission, that is, women empowerment in every realm possible. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is one of the fields where womens representation is currently quite low. Its this that has given way to this research whose purpose is to find out the difficulties faced by...
Tag: Gender & inclusion
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Women Deliver Launches Campaign to Promote Critical Investments in Girls and Women
September 21st 2016, New York, NY: Women Deliver and 10 partners launched today the Deliver for Good campaign, a global initiative that applies a gender lens to the Sustainable Development Goals and promotes 12 critical investments in girls and women to power progress for all Achieving growth and prosperity for all starts with ensuring equal...
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CFA Institute Study Points to Way Forward for Women in Finance
Dubai (UAE), September 18, 2016: CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has completed the largest survey of investment management professionals on the subject of gender diversity to date. The study finds that while women continue to make progress within the industry, much more needs to be done to ease the global bottleneck that is...
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Moving the Goalposts: Empowering Girls Through Football
Tell us about your journey; how was Moving the Goalposts (MTG) launched and what was your source of inspiration? I worked as a radio presenter, producer and reporter for the BBC world service, BBC Radio Four and BBC Radio Five; covering the womens football World Cup in the United States in 1999 before I came...
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Whats holding women back at Pakistans international tech event?
Half of the population of the world is women. Termed as the next billion, women are touted as the torchbearers of global sustainable development. Reams of paper have been written, scores of posts published about the critical role of women in every sphere of society, be it economic, political, social and most importantly technological. From...
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Laboring on
Gender equality is the buzzword of the 21th century as is the very real struggle for growth of global economy. Surprisingly though, with such realities in plain sight, half of the population of the world being women are still unable to fully participate in modern economy. That said, those who are in fact involved in...
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Celebrating Woman
April 17th, 2016, Dubai, UAE – BOLDtalks Woman continues to bring to light the incredible stories of women – looking at both their challenges and triumphs – and encouraging solutions to womens issues. When you invest in a woman, change happens. Because when a woman thrives, a family thrives, a community prospers, and an entire nation creates the...
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Silencing the Lambs: A Look At Domestic Violence in Pakistan
In an incident in Mingora (North Area, Valley of Swat) Pakistan, in May 2001, a woman was allegedly gunned down by her husband over a domestic dispute and then the husband escaped. [Gender Equality And Women Empowerment in Pakistan by Rashida Patel, published by Oxford University Press] **** Bibi Zadagai, wife of Amir Nawaz,...
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Leveling the Gender Quotient
The Girls Lounge is a revolutionary US-based entity that offers support and mentoring to professional women, enabling them to find their voice and embrace their feminine leadership powers. Headed by the visionary Shelley Zalis, the Lounge advocates gender balance in the corporate world thereby effecting real change for real women. Tell us about yourself and...
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Spotting the Glass Cliff
We have all heard of the proverbial glass ceiling which is a term coined by Katherine Lawrence and Maryann Schreiber of Hewlett-Packard in 1979 at the National Press Club during a discussion at the Conference of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. The glass ceiling refers to a perceived barrier in the corporate...