Hong Kong’s First Female Chief Executive Charge to Fight Gender Barriers in the Workplace
Hong Kong’s first female chief executive-to-be has broken the city’s highest glass ceiling, illustrating how far Hong Kong women have come, but also how far they still have to go. Enabling more women to work and making jobs gender-neutral are crucial in tackling demographic challenges and transitioning to a more sophisticated service- and technology-driven economy. An ageing population and low fertility rates pose a demographic time bomb. Hong Kong has one of the world’s worst gender imbalances, but just 51 percent of its women are in the workforce. Studies in Japan and Canada show closing the workplace gender gap could boost annual GDP by 5 to 13 percent. For Hong Kong, this could mean HK$100 billion or more a year. More women in the workforce also relate to increased birth rates, as in Sweden and the UK, where paid parental leave and flexible schedules keep mothers working as they build a family. This boosts…
UK ‘backstabbed’ Women’s Rights Activists in Saudi Arabia
By: Samuel Osborne The UK stabbed activists campaigning for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia in the back by allegedly voting for the country to…
US Top Court Invalidates Gender Inequality in Citizenship Law
The US Supreme Court on Monday struck down a gender distinction in US immigration law that treats mothers and fathers differently when determining a…
PERU’S MINISTER FOR WOMEN DENOUNCES RISING RATE OF GENDER VIOLENCE
Peru’s minister for women has denounced the impunity that surrounds crimes of gender violence, which she says has placed the country among the world’s…
Beware of the Eating Disorder- Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is a severe eating disorder in which a person consumes a large quantity of food within a short period of time, after…
Kalpana Morpania: An Epitome of Dignity of Labour
Kalpana Morpania was born on the 30th of May 1949 in India. She had lost her father at the early stage of her life…
Sokoto’s Mariya Tambuwal Emerge Nigeria’s Most-Impactful Governor’s Wife
Portsmouth, United Kingdom 9 June 2017 Wife of the Governor of Sokoto State of Nigeria, Hajiya Mariya Tambuwal has emerged winner of the keenly…
Saudi Arabia Jails Human Rights Activist Who Defied Women’s Driving Ban
Saudi Arabia has re-arrested women’s rights campaigner Loujain al-Hathloul, who is best known for her defiance of the kingdom’s driving ban. Ms Al-Hathloul was…
Sri Mulyani Indrawati- Championing Financial Stability in Asia
Born in Bandar Lampung on August 26, 1962, Sri Mulyani earned her bachelor degree in Economics major from the Universitas Indonesia (1986). She continued…
Exploring Traditional Motifs with Painting
Esther Nikwambi Mahlangu was born in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, on November 11, 1935. She started painting at the age of ten with a…
CHICKEN CAESAR PASTA SALAD
One of the best things about summer is all the delicious summer salads! What can I say? I am a girl who loves a…
How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering
For some women, enrolling in an engineering course is like running a psychological gauntlet. If they dodge overt problems like sexual harassment, sexist jokes,…
