Economy

Lithuania First Woman President

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Tue, 19/05/2009 - 11:43

Publisher:

BBC

Publisher / Organization Main page URL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Published Date:

2009

Abstract:

Dalia Grybauskaite has been elected Lithuania's first female president, according to official results.

Link to external site:

Lithuania First Woman President

African Women Worst Affected by Global Economic Crisis

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 14/05/2009 - 10:10

Publisher:

IPS News

Publisher / Organization Main page URL:

http://www.ipsnews.net/

Author:

Kudzai Makombe

Published Date:

2009

Abstract:

The global financial crisis is on everyone's lips. With first hand reports of job losses, house foreclosures and citizens living on credit card debt, the impact of the crisis on the individual worker in the developed world is clear. In Africa, there have been threats of closures and retrenchments in the Zambian copper mines and Botswana's diamond mines, amongst others. But the impact on the individual citizen and African women in particular, given the existing gender inequalities, has not been well documented.

Link to external site:

African Women Worst Affected by Global Economic Crisis

Cyberellas are IT! The Code for Best Practices for Women in ICT

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 07/05/2009 - 11:28

Publisher:

Europe's Information Society

Publisher / Organization Main page URL:

http://ec.europa.eu/

Published Date:

2009

Abstract:

In the present economic environment encouraging women to choose a scientific career will not only benefit them but also the economy in general and act as a multiplying growth factor. There is a big pool of unused potential out there!

Link to external site:

Cyberellas are IT! The Code for Best Practices for Women in ICT

Gender Dynamics Of Recession

Published date:

20 Mar 2009

The global economic recession has taken its toll on the Indian economy, hitting businesses, exports and recruitments. And if the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) report is anything to go by, men in western countries have been hit harder than women by the crisis.

Microfinance and Microenterprise Development: Their Contribution to the Economic Empowerment of Women

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/05/2008 - 15:48

Publisher:

International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Publisher / Organization Main page URL:

http://www.ilo.org

Author:

Maria Sabrina De Gobbi

Published Date:

2005

Abstract:

Out of the 9.5 million people who are currently working in Nepal, only 1.5 million (16 per cent) are paid employment. Out of this number, 1.2 million are men and less than 400, 00 are women. Eighty-two per cent of employed women are self-employed vs. 12 per cent of those who are wage-employed. In some ethnic communities especially in the Newars and Tibeto-Burman highland groups such as the Sherpas, Gurungs or Thakalis, women entrepreneurs have traditionally been present, buy the idea of women in business has only recently spread throughout the whole country. Women normally work more hours than men and rural women work more hours than women urban areas.

Link to external site:

Microfinance and Microenterprise Development: Their Contribution to the Economic Empowerment of Women

South Africa National Policy Framework for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality Africa

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 28/04/2008 - 16:11

Publisher:

Office on the Status of Women - South Africa

Publisher / Organization Main page URL:

http://www.info.gov.za/

Author:

Dr. Ellen Kornegay

Published Date:

2000

Abstract:

South Africa's definition of and goals towards achieving gender equality are guided by a vision of human rights which incorporates acceptance of equal and inalienable rights of all women and men.

Link to external site:

South Africa National Policy Framework for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality Africa