Rural women form the backbone of the agricultural labour force across much of the developing world. Globally, in 2009, more than a third of the female workforce was engaged in agriculture, while in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, more than 60 per cent of all female employment is in this sector.ILO. 2009. Global […]

SAME SKY is a fair-trade company founded in 2008 by New York philanthropist, Francine LeFrak. Based in Kigali, , the company works with Gahaya Links, a handicrafts organisation founded in 2004. The company employs HIV-positive women, all of whom are survivors of the 1994 . The artisans are trained to crochet and make bracelets using […]

Janet Louise Yellen is an acclaimed professor of economics and business, and was nominated Chair of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central banking system. Table of Contents 1 Life and Education 2 Career 3 Views 4 References 5 External links Life and Education Yellen was born on August 13, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. She […]

Table of Contents 1 About Women, Business and the Law 2 Getting to Equal 3 Economies Covered in Women, Business and the Law 2016 4  Data Expansion 5  Online Gender Database 6  More Gender Data About Women, Business and the Law Though legal gender parity has improved around the world, major differences persist. Many laws and regulations continue to prevent […]

INSEAD is one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools. It has two campuses (Singapore and France) and two centres in the Middle East (Israel and Abu Dhabi), 145 renowned faculty members from 37 countries, more than 1,000 degree participants – MBA, Executive MBA and PhD, and more than 9,500 executives from the […]

Table of Contents 1 Overview 2 Access to resources 3 Regional differences 4 Outlook 5 References Overview Women’s economic activity in the MENA region has increased over the past 20 years. Still, the region has a long way to go as even today just over 30 percent of the region’s women are economically active. The […]