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Hopscotch: Bringing Women Effectively Back To Work

Hopscotch: Bringing Women Effectively Back To Work

October 25th 2016, Dubai, UAE: According to a new survey carried out by the women-only portal Hopscotch, there is a huge disparity between the support females need in order to make their journey back to work a smooth one, and what is currently on offer in the GCC region. Of the types of skills women...

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Enabling next-gen women in the Middle East

Enabling next-gen women in the Middle East

Tell us about Reach – its ideology and what it strives to achieve? Reach is a non-profit mentoring programme dedicated to helping young women professionals unlock their true potential through structured mentoring with professional support. By sharing their knowledge and expertise with their mentees, within strict rules of confidentiality, mentors aim to build trust and...

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Revisiting the “second shift”

Revisiting the “second shift”

Those already familiar with the concept of the “second shift” would know that the word “revisiting” in the title of this essay is actually a misnomer. And to those less familiar or uninitiated, let me introduce you, officially, to Second Shift. But in order to appreciate what the second shift entails, we must know what...

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Spotting the Glass Cliff

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...