Sydney network Heads Over Heels is designed to rival “the boys club.”
Every few months, 70 high-powered executives meet for Heads Over Heels. They listen to business pitches from female entrepreneurs, then break into small, revolving “huddles,”
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What’s Woman 20? Let’s not jump too fast. Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister said recently that the G20, currently led by Turkey, would not get involved in Greece’s debt crisis without a request from the European Union,
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In the blue (ocean) economy, women are riding the wave of Africa’s maritime sector. Women have an unrivaled opportunity to drive the industrialization of Africa’s oceans, according to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the African Union chairwoman of the 54-member African Union.
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An all-women fish-pickle unit based in Chennai-India, operated and owned by Sea Dot, a self-help group of female fish workers whose communities were shattered by the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, has become a way to build back lives for the women’s families after the destruction of their houses and fishing boats.
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According to Aisha Natu, who writes a weekly column in a local Saudi Arabia paper, current regulations and bureaucracy is hampering the development of businesses run by women in Saudi Arabia. She says, “Women don’t only want to be seen,
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In Manila, Bacolod, Tacloban, Pampanga, Batangas and Davao, more than 400,000 women small business owners participated in Sari-Saring Happiness Day. Coca-Cola (part of the global 5by20 Program) launched it to brighten Christmas all over the Philippines.
“Christmas is the most celebrated season in the Philippines,
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If you are based in Yorkshire (Northern England), it’s your lucky week on these upcoming programs. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), starting on Monday, (11/10), will offer expert insight into global trading opportunities.
Organized by the Forward Ladies,
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Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, UK- based Big Tomato Company was founded by Gloria Daniel. Since 2003, Big Tomato Company have manufactured award winning, modern English creamware in the heart of the Staffordshire Potteries selling to over 400 leading design and lifestyle stores worldwide.
Gloria will be sharing her story at an upcoming conference to encourage more women-led enterprises to export.
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At the Clinton Global Initiative’s 10th annual meeting in New York on September 23rd, Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba Group (pictured), says:
“I admire Chinese women because a large number of them are both responsible mothers and successful entrepreneurs,”
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The Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (MoCS) in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu recently met with women entrepreneurs associated with the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association Nepal (FWEAN) to discuss export potentials and transit issues with neighboring India and Bangladesh.
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