Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey – As part of the conclusion of Women’s History Month in March, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst hosted a Women’s Empowerment Forum on April 3. The Women’s Empowerment Forum is an inclusive and supportive space for military and civilian women and advocates to connect and engage with one another. As the event […]
Egypt has invested heavily in closing gender gaps in health and education over the past decades, but these gains have not translated into increased female labor force participation. In fact, the female labor force participation rate is just 15.4%, compared to 67.1% for men. Of course, COVID-19 has had a shock effect on labor market […]
Developing talents you didn’t have before Elsevier’s Gender Equality Leadership Talent Development Programme identifies promising leaders and equips them with undiscovered tools and skills to help them on their leadership journey. When the first cohort opened up in 2020 by application rather than recommendation, I wasn’t sure if I should apply. Then I looked at […]
Simply counting the number of women participating in a particular initiative is not a sufficient measure of effective gender equality. “It’s more about validating the impact of their contributions,” says Janet Gurung, founder and executive director of Women for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN), which developed its own certification framework, the W+Standard, […]
Bat Mitzvah: Celebrating Jewish Women’s Empowerment March 18, 2022 This article is republished from The Conversation. Lisa Fishbein Joffe March 18, 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Bat Mitzvah ceremony in the United States. Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish […]
When people ask, “Where are World Relief’s women’s empowerment programs?” our answer is, “Everywhere.” Transforming how men and women live, relate to and honor God is at the very heart of our work. We know that women and girls do not exist in a vacuum – they live, work and school in communities – and […]
Agadez, Niger – On a sunny Sunday afternoon, March 6, 2022, in Agadez, Niger, eight women from the Women’s Association of Air Base 201 were greeted by 20 warm smiling women from the Tehirt Women’s Association. Together, the women unloaded water, rice, pasta and American snacks from a car in preparation for celebrating International Women’s […]
Karina Antenucci A recent report by the International Forum for Women’s Studies ranked Emory University as the most influential institution in women’s empowerment research. This recognition comes at a time when roughly one-third of the 47 core faculty members in the Hubert School of Global Health have contributed to women’s empowerment research in some way, […]
October 4, 2021 9:14 PM HONG KONG SAR, China, Oct. 4, 2021 — FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, announced that Kawal Preet, president, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (AMEA), FedEx Express, has signed a CEO statement in support of the Women’s […]
Small and Medium Enterprises Day is observed on August 30 every year. The day is celebrated across the country with an aim to promote the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector, which is the second largest sector in employment generation. Small and Medium Enterprises play a vital role in the economic development of a […]
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