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Details Emerge of 500M Euro EU-UN Program on Women’s Rights, Family Planning

By: Vince Chadwick The European Commission is preparing a 500 million euro ($570 million) program with the United Nations on women’s rights, which is to be announced at the United Nations General Assembly in September, according to a senior European Union aid official. “The [EU development] commissioner has proposed this to the U.N. and we are talking right now to the U.N. to shape the program,” Klaus Rudischhauser, deputy director-general of DEVCO — the European Commission’s development arm — told Devex in Brussels recently. Rudischhauser said the initiative will focus on preventing violence against women but that it would have a broad scope, noting it followed the decision by United States President Donald Trump earlier this year to reinstate the “global gag rule,” resulting in the loss of an estimated $600 million of funding for reproductive health. The new program was “in the pipeline” before Trump’s…

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Gender Resources

How Procurement and Sourcing Can Help Close the Gender Gap

By: Sydney Lazarus Procurement functions can play a big role in supporting women-owned businesses, argues a new report produced by UN Women. The report points out that corporations are in a powerful position to help close the gender gap through their procurement and sourcing departments. Even though corporate spend accounts for trillions of dollars every year, only 1% of that sum goes to women-owned businesses. (In comparison, for U.S. federal contracts, the figure is 4.7%) The benefits of sourcing from more women-owned businesses go beyond the women themselves. The World Economic Forum has found that gender equality is positively correlated with the country’s gross domestic product and level of competitiveness. Similarly, the World Bank has reported that “underused or misallocated” female labor leads to economic losses. But what do corporations themselves stand to gain? First, and perhaps most important to the c-suite, there are benefits to the…

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Love Bites

How are Resilient Couples Different

Couples who are able to withstand tough times in their relationship are more likely to gain a stronger connection to one another. No relationship is void of challenges hence the importance of resilience. Resilience is simply the ability to bounce back and grow and thrive during challenges, change, and stress. The following are ways to achieve resilience in a relationship: CARE rather than confront during tough conversations. Resilient couples know how to communicate assertively — that is, in a clear, confident and controlled manner. While that’s easier said than done, particularly with tough conversations, here’s a model to help: C — Communicate the facts. A — Address your concerns in an objective way R — Reach out and ask the other person for his/her perspective E — Evaluate outcomes Most importantly, do your homework before you even have the conversation. Ask yourself whether you have an accurate understanding of the…

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Food ,Travel & Leisure

The Nourishing Taste of Bobotie

Bobotie (pronounced ba-boor-tea) is a delicious national South African food that is made from a mixture of curried meat, fruit and creamy golden topping similar to moussaka. Often time bobotie, consist of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping and served with sambal. It is popular in the Cape Malay community (in the Cape of Good Hope) South Africa at which time it was made with a mixture of Mutton Pork.

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Health & Wellbeing

Women and the Egg Freezing Controversy

By: Eruke Ojuederie In developing nations, fertility among women has been perceived as one of the greatest gifts a husband can have. It has served as the basis for a healthy marriage on the one hand and broken marriages on the other. Whatever be the case, psychology experts have stated that once a woman starts aging she focuses more on family and loved ones which include children. Dr. Jordan B Peterson a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto in one of his speeches pointed that when a woman clocks 30 she begins to feel the urgent need to have a child. Psychology, societal, and cultural beliefs all tilt towards the significance of fertility in women, however, in recent times, there has been a turn around with the inception of new medical discoveries. How it all began Freezing of eggs was introduced with the first cryopreservation of…

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The Giant Strides of Andrea Jung

Born in Toronto, Jung was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her family moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts, when she was only two years old. Jung’s mother was born in Shanghai and was a chemical engineer; her father was born in Hong Kong and was an architect. Jung has one younger brother, Mark. When she was young, Jung studied not only the regular subjects offered at a Massachusetts school, but studied the Mandarin language as well.

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Gender Resources

How Can We Close the Gender Gap Within STEM?

By: Monica Burdick Those of us with careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM fields, in today’s common parlance) know the importance of truths revealed by numbers. How can it be, then, that so many people in our numbers-based fields are inured to the deep disappointment I feel regarding statistics on gender disparities in STEM-related jobs? According to 2016 figures from the National Science Board, women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce and only 29 percent of the science and engineering workforce. Though female and male students show no significant differences in their math and science abilities between kindergarten and senior year of high school, somehow only 35 percent of chemists, 17 percent of industrial engineers, 11 percent of physicists and astronomers, and 8 percent of mechanical engineers are women. These imbalances ought to provoke outrage in their own right—or, at the very least, an…

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