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Career women battle Japan’s ‘salaryman’ culture

By Sophia Yan   A lot of Japanese women know exactly how their careers will end before they’ve even begun. Two paths are open to new hires at many big Japanese firms: the career and non-career tracks — sogo-shoku and ippan-shoku in Japanese. They’re often referred to as the “management” and “mommy” tracks. That’s because women typically end up in the non-career roles, which involve administrative jobs with hardly any upward mobility that ambitious people find very frustrating. “Highly educated women quit because it’s not worthwhile keeping that ‘stupid’ job,” said MachikoOsawa, a labor economist at Japan Women’s University. The Japanese government wants more women to pursue careers to help kick-start its sputtering economy, but obstacles like the separate career tracks — part of the country’s male-dominated corporate culture — are hindering progress. About 3 million women in Japan aren’t working even though they would like to, according to official…

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Argentine Women Protest Rape, Killing of Teenage Girl

Thousands of people wearing black clothes braved the torrential rain in Buenos Aires to protest the rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl in Argentina. Protesters called it Black Wednesday, and turned it into a day to demand an end to violence against women nationwide. Lucia Perez was abducted outside her school in Mar del Plata on October 8. She was drugged, repeatedly raped and sodomized with an “unspecified object” so violently that she eventually bled out from her internal injuries. Three suspects have been arrested and are still in custody. The prosecutor on the case, María Isabel Sánchez, told Telam news agency that the assailants washed her body and cleaned her clothing before dropping her off at a local clinic — and running away. “We can all be vulnerable and suffer what happened to this girl — all of us, our entire gender,” said Gergina Elcano, a demonstrator in…

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Saudi Arabia: National Transformation Program Promotes Women’s Role in Society

Saudi Arabia said that the National Transformation Program 2020 would strengthen the role and status of women in the Saudi society, stressing that equal access to education and training was a key element to enable women to contribute fully and equally in the country’s development. Amal Al-Qahtani, second secretary of the Kingdom’s delegation to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, said during the Third Committee of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, that the Saudi government has achieved new steps towards empowering Saudi women and ensuring their full rights. Qahtani highlighted Saudi women’s role in national decision-making through leadership positions in the government sector as well as membership in Majlis Al-Shura (Consultative Council). She also stressed women’s right to vote and stand for elections to municipal councils, in addition to their participation in the Kingdom’s official delegations at regional and international conferences. Qahtani added that a number of…

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Indonesia: Woman Flogged for Standing too Close to Boyfriend

An Indonesian woman has been caned in front of a jeering crowd after being accused of “standing too close to her boyfriend”. The woman, who has not been identified, was among 13 people flogged in Aceh province on the western island of Sumatra for allegedly breaking strict Islamic laws, which ban intimate behaviour such as touching, hugging, and kissing between unmarried people. Photographs of the young woman crying out in pain have been shared by local and international media, amid growing concerns over the rising number of people — particularly women — subjected to corporal punishment in the region. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, but Aceh is the only province which imposes sharia law. People in the region can be flogged for a number of “offences”, including gambling, drinking alcohol, and gay sex, in addition to any consensual sex outside of marriage. Seven men and six women…

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Zimbabwe Workplaces Unsafe for Women

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revealed that the country’s workplaces remain unsafe for female employees who are stalked by vices such as sexual harassment, job insecurity and lack of empowerment. In a study titled: “Future of Women at Work Initiative,” the ILO established that women are victims of unpaid work, low wage jobs and the ills associated with informal economies such as lack of job security, poor social security and lack of empowerment. With dwindling formal employment and negative job creation, Zimbabwe’s female workers find themselves confronted by traditional challenges, such as sexual harassment, unpaid maternity leave and are generally soft targets during retrenchment and gender discrimination by virtue of being women. According to the study, 30 percent of the country’s employees in the labour force are women. A paltry five percent are in senior management positions with three percent of Zimbabwean boards being chaired by women. Participants drawn…

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Clinton Clinches Third Debate Victory

Hillary Clinton won CNN’s instant poll after the Wednesday’s presidential debate, giving her a clean sweep of her three matchups with Donald Trump. The results from late Wednesday night showed 52 percent of debate watchers calling Clinton the winner compared with 39 percent who thought Trump won the night. Clinton’s 13-point margin is the closest in CNN’s polls of the three debates. She won with a 23-point margin during the second debate, earlier this month, and she won the first debate in September by a 35-point margin. Clinton also bested Trump on the question of who seemed better prepared to be president: She won with 59 percent of the sample compared with 35 percent for Trump. But the two were effectively tied on who seemed more sincere and authentic, as well as whom the respondents agreed with more on important issues. The debate in Las Vegas was the final…

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The South America- Africa- Middle East- Asia Women Summit (SAMEAWS) 2016

Organisers- Centre for Economic and Leadership Development

Theme – Scaling up the rise of women leaders in emerging economies

Date: 13 December 2016

Overview

In recent times, we are experiencing the dawn of an era where women are incurably committed to taking over the leadership of territories originally renowned for their history of patriarchy, oligarchy and subordination of women.

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