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Why Women Need to Strike a Balance Between Career and Family

One of the major issues militating against the active participation of women in social and corporate activities across developing nations has to do with cultural norms which see the woman as a caregiver with no place in the corporate world. For those women who have dared to choose career paths, they are usually faced with the challenges of being a success in the corporate world and caring for their families. However, women have been encouraged to brace up and do more in order to be an all-round success.

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On the Marble

ON THE MARBLE

“If we march the long road to freedom in hatred, what we find at the end is not freedom but another prison.” — Aung San Suu Kyi “I think the truth of the matter is, people who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love and it just so happens that they are the first to do it.” ..Condoleezza Rice Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard. Serena Williams

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Providing a New Life for the Remote Pakistan

Every woman is a rare gem, every woman is special, and every woman has something to offer to her society, it all depends on her (personal) determination and her belief. Does she see herself as incompetent, unqualified, impotent, and unfitted? Or does she considers herself as perfect, able, skilled, gifted, and available irrespective of background or circumstances that may be standing as a stumbling block? Ghulam Sughra Solangi, a light to the women community of Pakistan was born on March 2, 1970, in a little village called Muhammad Arab Solangi, somewhere in Pakistan. Although her father Muhib Ali was a teacher in a government school, Solangi did not have access to schooling based on the local traditional belief that bans females from seeking for education. She wanted to school, she held a strong attraction for education but she was bound by laws which she could not break free from. At…

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SEVEN THINGS EVERY MOM MUST KNOW ABOUT TEENAGE CHILDREN IN A DIGITALISED WORLD

Everyday, the world moves a step ahead to get more and more digitalized than ever before. Some parents have said that handling a teenage child is more difficult since the inception of social media and other digital devices. There is no doubting the fact that the teenage mind moves as fast as digitalization itself while picking both the negative and positives of a moving world. In the same vein, parents have grown too busy to attend to the needs of there children and so are most of the times unaware of happenings in their children’s lives that are capable of steering them towards depression.  This has become an issue of concern to most parents as they seek for suitable methods to instill character and discipline in their teenagers. Below are seven facts every should understand about their teenage children in a digitalized world. Communication is vital but it could become…

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Zulekha Hospital Offers Free Breast Cancer Screening until the End of the Year

By: Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary Nearly 40 percent of cancer cases diagnosed in the UAE is that of breast cancer and over 20 percent of all female deaths in the country can be attributed to breast cancer, said an oncologist on the sidelines of launching the Pink it Now campaign of Zulekha Healthcare group. The campaign which offers free mammograms with a consultation until December 31 was launched formally by Humaid Al Qatami, Dubai Health Authority Director General, Dr. Husain Al Rand, Assistant Under Secretary for Ministry of Health and Prevention, Indian Counsel General Vipul and Dr. Zulekha Daud, founder of Zulekha healthcare group. Dr. Pamela Munster, an oncologist at the University of California, US, emphasized on the need for early detection of breast cancer in women. “In the first stage breast cancer is 100 percent curable and that is why women must pledge to do have…

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Happenings

Cuba Hosts Regional Meeting on Women

Cuba is currently hosting the meeting of the Regional Conference on Women, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), local media reported. The meeting will address the implementation of gender equality plans in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals, Teresa Amarelle, general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), told Granma newspaper.  The event is dedicated to Vilma Espin, the first president of the Regional Conference and founder of the FMC, and to the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, ‘creator of the leading role of Cuban women’, Amaral said. The official said that the executive boards are made up of 19 member countries and are currently chaired by Uruguay. They meet between conferences, said Amarelle, who noted that the coming meeting will be held in Chile in two years. The leader expressed that Cuba could be…

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