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| Ghana Event Honors Innovative African Women Over 300 participants attended the Pan-African Women Inventors and Innovators Awards in Accra, Ghana in early September. With sponsorship from IFC GEM, the event comprised practical training, seminars, exhibition and awards. The awards acknowledged women role models and served as a platform to broaden horizons and increase aspirations of the participants. read more >> |
| IFC Trains Women Entrepreneurs in Afghanistan The IFC held a two-day workshop for women entrepreneurs in Kabul, to help businesswomen learn and share innovative approaches to business growth. read more >> |
| IFC Survey Finds Vietnamese Businesswomen Get Too Little Training IFC GEM and the Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF) released the findings of a survey of 500 women-owned businesses in Vietnam and presented the key findings at a series of national forums in October. read more >> |
| IFC Hosts Regional Gender Forum on Women in Enterprise The South Asia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF)-sponsored Regional Forum on Engendering Small and Medium Enterprises in Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 2 and 3 brought together more than 200 regional stakeholders to share experiences and best practice. read more >> |
| African Development Bank Supports Women in Business IFC GEM took part in the African Development Bank's seminar on Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship in Africa, held in Tunis in September. Send an email for additional information. |
| South Africa Celebrates Women in Technology About 500 women gathered for the annual Technology for Women in Business Awards on August 9 in Cape Town. The awards celebrated the achievements of women who have successfully used technology to grow and sustain their businesses in South Africa. Businesswoman and architect Polo Moretlo won the award for her talent and the energy she has invested into her interior design company. read more >> |
| New Saudi Labor Law Includes Provisions for Women On September 26 the Council of Ministers in Saudi Arabia approved the new labor law that allows women to work in all fields that suit their nature and raises the rate of Saudization of jobs in companies to 75 percent. The law entitles women to four weeks of maternity leave before and to six weeks after childbirth. An employer providing jobs to 50 women or more must arrange for babysitters to take care of their children aged below six. |
| Men in Denmark Increasingly Fired for Taking Parental Leave While the numbers of women in Denmark getting fired because of pregnancy is declining, a rising number of fathers risk getting the pink slip because they want to take parental leave. While such incidents were rare prior to 2003, they seem to have risen due to an increased awareness about men’s rights to care about their newborn child. |
| Sex Discrimination Suit against Morgan Stanley Results in $40 Million Settlement Wall Street brokerage firm Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $54 million to settle claims of sex discrimination at the firm, including higher pay for men and strip-club outings with clients. Morgan Stanley will set aside $2 million for diversity training and anti-discrimination programs. “This consent decree is a watershed in safeguarding and protecting the rights of women on Wall Street,” said District Judge Richard M. Berman who was hearing the case. |