Nepal’s top e-wallet app, Khalti, has cemented its place in the country’s digital payment market within two years by getting women on its side, empowering them to reduce the digital gender gap and improve their entrepreneurial skills.
While Uganda celebrates its success in containing the spread of COVID19 with sixty-nine recovered cases and zero number of deaths, the country’s leading telecommunication company, MTN Uganda recently donated sanitary towels to women in the mandatory COVID19 isolation centres.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage By Anais Nin Anaïs Juana Nin, known professionally as Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer. Nin wrote journals prolifically from age eleven until her death.
In the rural Zimbabwe district of Wedza, a new electric-powered motorcycle is helping bring income to poor women and easing the burden of looking after families.
The three-wheeler, known as Hamba (Go), powered by a solar-charged lithium-ion battery, is being piloted by start-up Mobility for Africa, which leases the motorcycle to women in groups of up to five.
The story of FedEx’s First Black Woman CEO
By Miracle Nwankwo
Years ago in America, a young single mother went searching for a regular day job to support herself and her six-week-old baby. She joggled between work, motherhood and night classes and finally found a steady 8-5 shift as a receptionist.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report also found women have taken on “more housework and childcare than fathers” during the lockdown, even if they have the same working arrangements.
Mothers are also spending more of their working hours simultaneously trying to care for children compared to men according to the analysis.
Two women from Brazil and India have been awarded the UN Military Gender Advocate award. The two UN peacekeepers are Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo, a Brazilian naval officer, and Major Suman Gawani, of the Indian Army, the UN Department of Peace Operations said on Monday.
