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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Changes are a coming for women. More women are becoming entrepreneurs. More women are expanding their businesses globally. More women are thinking differently and bigger about their global potential. More women are connecting with other women in different parts of the world to build their businesses.
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According to Samoa International Trade Centre (ITC) executive director Arancha Gonzalez, women put back 90 per cent of their earnings into the community compared to 40 per cent with men. “It’s a statistic that shows why investing in women is not just fair or right but actually makes sense,”
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I had to read this twice to understand what was happening. On August 24th, New Yorkers – men and women alike – ditched their shirts and joined people around the world in celebration of “International Go Topless Day.”
According to the New York Post:
Around 200 bare-chested men and women chanted “Free your Breasts!
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To achieve economic empowerment, women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka yearn for a successful career. They also help their families, and the country, prosper. Women entrepreneurship can contribute to a country’s development process in a number of ways.
At an individual level, it creates employment opportunities for women.
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It goes like this. A New York-based social enterprise Bird & Stone sells jewelry and sends 15 percent of its profits to the SiSi Fund. SiSi Fund:
A micro-finance fund in Kitale, Kenya run by a nonprofit, it helps women,
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Sarah Hildersley, Regional Coordinator – South West, Overseas Business Networks Program, Business West , talks about her time in the Middle East and the opportunities which exist for UK companies.
It’s important to highlight that women can do business in the Middle East.
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Dell announced the results of the second annual Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), revealing that more than 75 per cent of the countries surveyed were not meeting the most fundamental conditions required for female entrepreneurs to prosper.
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Is lack of confidence holding women back? Authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman (pictured) make a good argument in The Atlantic that it is:
Even as our understanding of confidence expanded, however, we found that our original suspicion was dead-on: there is a particular crisis for women—a vast confidence gap that separates the sexes.
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Eleven women from India overcame hardships by becoming entrepreneurs. Sakubai Lokhande, is one such entrepreneur, who comes from a tiny village in Maharashtra and started making brooms and ropes. She says:
“I come from a very poor background and hit the bed many a night on an empty stomach.”
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