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Microsoft Egypt launches campaign to train more than 1,500 Egyptian women
Microsoft Egypt launched a women’s empowerment campaign under the hashtag #MakeWhatsNext, aimed at motivating young women to develop their skills and discover various professions in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. As part of the initiative, Microsoft Egypt collaborated with several governmental and non-governmental organisations around the world to organise a series of events …
Women account for one-third of workforce in Egypt: El-Ghazaly
Women represent 22.9% of workforce in Egypt, according to latest statistics, says El-Ghazaly
Egyptian woman fights connotations attached to divorced women
Failure in marriage is not world’s end, says founder of New Beginning initiative
Egypt pays great attention to scientific, economic empowerment of women: Nasr
Females represent 43% of all scientists in Egypt, says Sakr
What defines relationship between women’s economic empowerment, basic education?
The head of Egyptian Feminist Union, Hoda Badran, conducted a study in cooperation with the United Nations Women’s office to answer the above question. It was conducted across six Arab countries: Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, and Bahrain. Economic policies, cultural heritage disrupt women’s empowerment The study showed that the high level of women’s …
Women in business world: Shining despite challenges
By 2022, about 1bn women expected to be ready to enter mainstream economy as employers, producers, entrepreneurs
Women are always portrayed as victims, weak creatures in drama: study
Art is not only reason for low status of women; other factors include education, other media, says Al-Shafei
Saving the environment, empowering women
Vickie Frémont, a French woman born in Cameroon, is a modern day heroine. For the past several years she has been conducting workshops around the world, using a hands-on approach for the transformation of rejects or trash into useful everyday objects. Included in her workshops—which take place in schools, community centres, universities, and even in …
Women who seek freedom from cultural constraints
Every young woman wants to achieve success in her personal and professional life, but the path to success can be tricky and navigating it requires being proactive in several aspects of one’s life. Even though the path to success is always accompanied by many challenges, including the cultural constraints that are defined by society’s rules, …
Polling stations grant women places to express
Women, often facing sexual harassment in public, free to dance during presidential election, sometimes for small sums of money
3.5m women, their families across Egypt’s villages reached through Your Vote for Tomorrow’s Egypt campaign
Maya Morsi, National Council for Women (NCW) president, announced at a press statement on Sunday that Your Vote for Tomorrow’s Egypt campaign succeeded in reaching 3.5 million women and their families in villages across all of Egypt’s governorates through 1,219 public meeting and 489 door-knock campaigns over 56 days. As Egypt is about to embark …
How can women achieve happiness after marriage?
Newly-wed couples regularly suffer much from the fear of the unknown and stress arises when they think of the new stage in their life that they are embarking on. Then, after marriage, they discover that marriage life goes through many changes and developments; sometimes it is boring, or dominated by routine, and other times, it’s …
Gender inequality in film
Women are still at a disadvantage in the film industry, underrepresented in key creative positions, according to several equality-focused rights group, whose discourse has been coming back to the surface in recent years. Along with sexual harassment in the film industry, there is a huge gap in female representation in the media. The New York …
Why does Egypt celebrate 16 March?
The march of Egyptian women is fraught with struggle to achieve their political and social rights. By stopping at some critical moments in the history of Egypt, observers can find that women’s movements, for nearly two centuries, have been able to be effective and to create change Egyptian women have struggled throughout history and proven …
Women report more unwanted calls than men: Truecaller
Celebrating International Women’s Day, Truecaller released a report on receiving unwanted calls and reporting them based on gender. The results of the report showed that women around the world block 19% more unwanted calls than men. In Egypt, women receive unwanted calls 30% more than women in other regions. Egyptian women are 26% more likely …
L’Oreal invests about $800m annually in research empower this promising sector: Mokhtar
Company seeks to enrich the field of scientific research with superior female models of researchers, says General Manager of L’oreal Egypt
How will different institutions in Egypt celebrate the IWD?
The eighth of March will bring together global governments, women organisations, businesses, and charities together under the banner of International Women’s Day (IWD), an event dedicated to celebrating to what extent women achieved success in society, politics, and economics. Meanwhile, the day has political roots due to strikes and protests that are often organised to …
Ammanii unites women with one ‘Sa’maa’
“Whether you are in the east or the west, you are still covered by the same sky. You do not get an extra piece because you come from a different background or believe in a different religion or have a different skin colour,” says the designer
Egyptian woman digs her name among the world caricaturists
I preferred to make women the heroines for my first book as I found that women have no caricature book that focuses on their issues in the Arab world, Says El Adl
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4th Business Women of Egypt 21: Path to lifting Arab women’s conditions
Egypt is full of success stories led by women who overcame struggles, managed to earn financial incomes; they are considered role models, says Arab League member With the aim of supporting women to have steady feet in economic markets and help them establish their own startups in the fields they are passionate about, the 4th …
Women receive 51% of total loans offered by SMEDA in 2017
Women more likely than men to pay off loans, the rate of default almost nonexistent, says Gamea
Society is embracing ideas of hardliners: Amna Nosseir
I support Al-Sisi in the coming election for his accomplishments and I told him he needs better aides
Administrative Prosecution issues report on advantages, challenges of women in public sector
The Administrative Prosecution Authority, headed by Faryal Kotb, issued a report on the most prominent advantages and challenges faced by women in public sector jobs within the framework of the state’s efforts for its designated year of women, 2017. The report listed the negative aspects of discrimination against women in public sector jobs and ways …
One of Africa’s most influential women in business, government is Yomna El Sheridy
Yomna El Sheridy is the founder and managing director of Special Food Industry International Co, manufacturer and exporter of table olives, pickled vegetables, and sun-dried tomatoes. She has over 20 years of experience in food processing and has worked in the export and marketing of food products at a global level. El Sheridy has worked …
Entreprenelle holds ‘SHE CAN’18’ event for women entrepreneurship in Cairo on 2,3 March
Prominent issue causing gap in entrepreneurship field is women unaware of available resources in market, says Entreprenelle founder
BWE21 will hold its 4th annual conference between 17 to 21 February
The aim of the conference is to demonstrate the success of women’s leadership as a role model in promoting Egyptian economy in the Middle East, says chairperson of BWE21
Women break political taboos
Huda Sha’arawi struggled for 99 years, calling for Egyptian women’s electoral, political rights; now, six ministries in Egypt led by women
NCW signs cooperation protocol with AccorHotels to support women
Over 35% AccorHotels employees are women
StreetPal helps women fight sexual harassment
Hope to run the application abroad in 2020, says StreetPal cofounder
Our only weapon now is Arab solidarity: Mervat Al-Talawy
Number of female POWs reached 52 in occupation’s prisons, says Palestine’s representative in the Executive Council of the Arab Women Organisation