September 13, 2015: Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF), in collaboration with partners UN WOMEN and Indus Motor Company (Toyota Pakistan), recently launched an Innovation Challenge and a 3-day Hackathon to encourage creative and innovative people to help address the challenge of womens transport. Adopting an innovative approach to kick-off the exercise, the PIF organized an hour...
Tag: women empowerment
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Smashing the Glass Ceilings
Equal participation of both men and women in the economic activity of a country is critical not only for sustainable development, but for a balanced and equitable society. Although this a fact already acknowledged universally, there still exists a disparity between awareness and reality. A number of companies have begun to realize that empowering women...
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Empowering Women Hackathon #TakesBackTheWheel
Pakistan Innovation Foundation an apolitical non-profit dedicated using innovation to bring about a transformation in the Pakistani society launched the Womens Transportation Innovation Challenge and Hacatkhon this week. There are millions of women who use public transportation to get to work or educational institutions in Pakistan and because many face discrimination, both economic...
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Global {M} talks #WomenInTech: Engagement, Education & Empowerment
By Gwenno Brown As a tech recruitment agency that specializes in international recruitment, Global {M} is passionate about placing the most talented in tech with the most innovative companies globally. For Global {M} it is the talent and not the gender of the candidate that makes a perfect fit for a role. Over the last week Global {M}...
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Empowering Women Through Tech
Registered in Pakistan as a non-government organization (NGO), and operational since 2010, the Womens Digital League (WDL) is an online platform that provides training and work opportunities for local women. Introducing computer-based work, the social enterprise is not only recognized by Google but is also certified by Thunderbird Schools Project Artemis, and Goldman Sachs 10,000...
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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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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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On the recklessness of rationalizing conservatism
I get it why Pepsis newly appointed CEO Indra Nooyi said what she said; commenting on women striving to achieve work-life balance and cant having it all. I was, however, fairly amazed to read Kim Kardashian (of all people) challenge a titan in the world of business one who made her way up the...
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