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Ertharin Cousin: On a Mission to end the World’s Hunger

Ertharin Cousin Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin is the 12th Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. She was born in 1957 and raised alongside her three sisters in Lawndale, a poor neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother worked in social services, while her father engaged in volunteer community development work. Cousin started her high school education in 1971 at the Lane Technical High School, Chicago, among the first female freshmen and sophomores to be admitted at the school. Lane Technical was rated among the top high schools in Chicago at the time and admitted all male students, prior to the fall of 1971. Cousin graduated in from High School in 1975. She proceeded to the University of Illinois Chicago, where she earned a B.A Degree in 1979. Cousin also studied international law at the University of Georgia School of Law where completed a…

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Business Clinique

Turning Undecided Business Dreams into Future Success

By: Lahle Wolfe

Even the most motivated women entrepreneurs can struggle with deciding on the right business idea. For some budding entrepreneurs, ideas flow freely but never get off the ground. For others, ideas are vague and sketchy so are discarded and never fully explored. Deciding on the right business idea has as much to do with creating a business plan and feasibility study as it does doing some soul searching.

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Impact Inspire

Reiko Abe: The Face of Japan’s Globalisation

By: Natalie Obiko Pearson Reiko Abe became a civil engineer in Japan, but she couldn’t find a job. An ancient Shinto superstition, made part of Japan’s labor law, held that if a woman entered a tunnel under construction, she would anger the jealous mountain goddess and cause worker accidents. Two decades later, Abe has become the face of Japan’s global engagement as the nation seeks to overcome its image as an economic laggard and a wasteland for career women. Television advertisements featuring her have run on CNN and the BBC. She’s been lauded by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (no relation) for showcasing Japan’s strengths abroad and symbolizing why the country needs to promote more women in a workforce where less than 5 percent of managers are female. The irony is that Abe, 51, had to leave Japan. After overseeing construction safety on Indian metro projects for seven years, she’s been…

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Women & SDG

The Role of USAID in Meeting Women-related SDG Goals

After the Millennium development goals (MDG’s) ran for its stipulated number of years, the United Nations in 2015 came up with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) which singled out women-related issues as one of its key focuses. There have been several efforts geared towards not only bridging the gender gaps across the world, but also ensuring that women empowerment that will on the long run yield financial independence among women serves as a veritable tool to achieve these goals. Several organisations and individuals have come together in different forms to contribute their quota towards improving the mode of living for women who largely feel vulnerable and marginalized and one of these organizations is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). For decades, USAID has partnered with the Government of Jordan and civil society organizations to support the well-being and empowerment of women and girls. With an education system that…

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Love Bites

How to Deal with a Lazy Spouse

By: Dave Willis One of the most frustrating challenges in a marriage happens when one spouse is doing the majority of the work and the other spouse seems content to be “lazy.” I often hear things like, “I just don’t know what to do! I feel like I’m carrying everything by myself and he/she doesn’t seem to care.” That’s certainly a lonely and frustrating situation, and if you’re currently facing the unique challenges of a lazy or disconnected husband or wife, here are a few ways you may be able to help the situation… COMMUNICATE your frustrations but DON’T NAG. It’s natural to want to talk with sarcasm, nagging and criticism when your husband doesn’t seem to be “getting it,” but those negative approaches rarely have any positive impact. Instead, look for ways to communicate your needs and frustrations with more care and less criticism. Most people respond better to…

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