Empowering Women To Succeed, Sept 26 - Your Free Ticket A Full Day Of Accelerated Growth In Multiple Aspects Of Your Life ... at the Paradise Banquet Hall in Vaughan. When: Tuesday, September 26 from 9 am to 6 pm. This is a one-day event designed to take you to the next level of success in your personal life, your business life, and your financial life. Only the best-of-the-best appear on our stage and they give everything they’ve got to help you succeed (and the Tickets are FREE). … [Read more...]
How to Start a Successful Networking Group for Women
September 2, 2015 by
In an economy where women only made 82.5 percent of men’s median earnings in 2014, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports, women supporting women in the professional sphere is crucial for the advancement of workplace equality, as well as provides emotional benefits. Elizabeth Mays, author of "The Get-Ahead Guide: Go from Job Zero to Successful Career Professional," knows the power of women's networking groups. “Connecting with a supportive network of successful, ambitious women can be … [Read more...]
HIGH Potential for Women Entrepreneurship
June 12, 2014 by
Governments across the world are vying to create the their own versions of Silicon Valley--super-hot regions that will spur startup growth and economic activity. But when it comes to harnessing the entrepreneurial ambitions of half the population--women--a new report shows that in many countries, even the most basic preconditions for significant entrepreneurial activity are lacking. The Gender-Global Entrepreneurial Development Index examines legal, economic, and cultural factors that affect … [Read more...]
Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas
January 1, 2014 by
UN Women: National Program on the Promotion of Green Inclusive Production Chains Managed by Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas … [Read more...]
Women CEOs of the Fortune 1000 & 500, Catalyst.org
August 13, 2013 by
Our Vision Changing workplaces. Changing lives. Our Mission Expanding opportunities for women and business. Our Values Connect, Engage, Inspire, Impact Catalyst Canada Honours Celebrating Champions of Women in Canadian Business This is a list of women who currently hold CEO positions at companies that rank on the 2013 Fortune1000 lists. Women currently hold 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 4.6 percent of Fortune1000 CEO positions. Leadership at the … [Read more...]
Bolivia, microloans lift thousands of women from poverty
May 25, 2013 by
PARTICIPANTS IN THE SEMILLA PROGRAMME TEND TO A SWEET-ONION HARVEST. (PHOTO: UNDP BOLIVIA/BOLIVIA PRODUCE) Linet Claros Yevara, a resident of Mizque, a municipality in Bolivia with an 85 percent rate of extreme poverty rate, has seen her situation improve a lot lately. “My family eats better," she says. "Every day I give them fruit.” These improvements are thanks to the Semilla, or Seed, programme, a microcredit and skills-development programme financed by the Government of Spain (through … [Read more...]
A BRICS Bank for Development, Meetika Srivastava
March 25, 2013 by
A BRICS bank for development BRIC which was first used in the year 2001 as an acronym in the Goldman Sachs’s Global Economics paper No. 66 titled “The World Needs Better Economic BRICs” has now become an important bloc comprising of EMERGING POWERS of the world’s new economic order. It has a prominent economy of Latin America i.e., Brazil - a store house of raw materials, the Chinese Dragon; the fastest growing Asian economy and the second largest world economy after the US, the … [Read more...]
“Leadership Course for Entrepreneurship”, Nueva Segovia
March 9, 2013 by
Members of the Nueva Segovia cooperative take part in the “Leadership Course for Entrepreneurship” to strengthen gender equality in the agricultural producers’ organizations supported by the Purchase for Progress (P4P) project. NUEVA SEGOVIA. –34 year-old Johana Martínez begins her final work for the “Leadership Course for Entrepreneurship” with a presentation called “A Personal Story”. The auditorium listens attentively, including those who will grade the work of the students prior to … [Read more...]
2012 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards Gala – Nov 28
September 14, 2012 by
Celebrate the Extraordinary 2012 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards Gala Recipients of the 2012 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards will be recognized at the Gala on November 28, at the prestigious Fairmont Royal York Hotel. Join us for an inspiring evening that honours the courage and celebrates the stories of exceptional women nation-wide. Indulge in an evening among stars and enjoy the glamour of this year's gala as we pay tribute to this year's finalists … [Read more...]
Investing in Women Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders is Smart Economics
August 23, 2012 by
Phnom Penh (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – “Investing in women’s entrepreneurial leadership, and the empowerment of women, is smart economics - which is why women’s empowerment is one of the most important development priorities for the countries of Asia and the Pacific,” said Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), addressing senior Cambodian … [Read more...]
