Women Volunteer Organization: Celebrating Women’s History Month

The role of women in history has often been overlooked, and Women’s History Month celebrates the forgotten contributions that women have made for this country.  Women’s History Month encourages activities in schools, communities, and workplaces to remind the population of the important role women have played in the development of the country, and hopes [...]

Experience Makes The Difference In Business Women’s Success

Experiential training program aims to get more women leaders
in top management positions.
Birmingham, AL (GoArticles) September 7, 2005 – Can women lead
America’s businesses?
Six corporate consultants and one Princeton student say “Yes!”
A new leadership development program for women in business was
announced today. Six former corporate managers and consultants
to Fortune 500 companies and one [...]

Women – The Innovative Entrepreneurs

More than one-third of entrepreneurs in the United States are women, and the growth in the number of woman-owned firms is more than double the rate of all U.S. firms. Stay-at-home moms are multi-tasking more than ever. In between childcare, cooking and cleaning, they are cranking out inventions that are making them millions. In [...]

Famous Women Inventors – a Few Historic Female Inventors

Throughout history famous women inventors and mostly, not so famous women inventors, have contributed immensely to the world of invention and innovation. Women inventors are the creators of a wide variety of inventions that we all take for granted.  For instance here are some of the inventions women are responsible for: the disposable cell [...]

THE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN POLITICS: GOOD OR BAD?

THE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN POLITICS: GOOD OR BAD?
There is a common maxim in the society today that’ whatever a man can do, a woman can also do it or much better’, which implies that women should be given equal opportunity to show case their talent (s) in all facets of human endeavour.
          One [...]

Nigerian Women Agro-entrepreneurship Development: Issues and Challenges

Introduction
            Suleiman (2006) defined entrepreneurship as “the willingness and ability of an individual to seek for investment opportunities to establish and run an enterprise successfully” while Drucker viewed an entrepreneur as a person who perceives business opportunities and takes advantage of the scarce resources and uses them profitably. Entrepreneurs are job creators [...]

Shaheen Women’s Resource and Welfare Organisation – Challenging Patriarchy and Breaking Stereotypes

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.”  -Shirley Chisholm.
In the congested by-lanes of the Old-City around Charminar in Hyderabad, lies Shaheen a Women’s resource and welfare organisation. This is one the few NGO’s in the country that works for Women’s welfare and empowerment. The organisation [...]

WOMENS’ RIGHTS IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE

WOMENS’ RIGHTS IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE
Women’s rights around the world are an important indicator of understanding global well-being. Many may think that women’s rights are only an issue in countries where religion is law, such as many Muslim countries. Or even worse, some may think this is no longer an issue at all.
BACKGROUND

California Women’s Rights Attorney Says Employment Discrimination Lawsuits Under the Fair Pay Act of 2009 Will Finally Get Women Equal Pay

As a result of the first bill signed by President Obama, women finally have a much greater chance of receiving pay that is equal to what men receive for the same work from an employer. However, it is still likely to require the filing of numerous lawsuits before employers come to grips with the [...]

Whist at a Women in Leadership Forum in the Emirates, conference motivational speaker, Carole Spiers detects an abundance of confidence

“It is confirmed by a new forecast by global HR consultants, Mercer, that salaries are predicted to rise by up to 7.5 per cent in the next year, following a separate finding from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce, showing that the UAE is now firmly in recovery mode from the global downturn. So [...]

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