The New Normal: Women in ICT, Female Entrepreneurs in Bulgaria
Bulgaria is seeing some very encouraging trends when it comes to women in business and technology. The Bulgarian Center of Women in Technology (BCWT), founded in 2012, has recently observed notable...
View ArticleOmani Woman Leader Fuels Productivity, Investment
In 1980, Nisreen Ahmed Jaffer became the first woman petroleum engineer in Oman. After graduating from Baghdad University, she joined the Petroleum Development of Oman Company and the then Ministry of...
View ArticleDon’t Miss the Live Online Global Women’s Leadership Summit
Most women’s conferences require travel and lots of time away from the office. Not this time. No matter where you live in the world, here is a tremendous opportunity to hear from some of the leading...
View ArticleEllas²: Women Tech Entrepreneurs Enhance Latin American Ecosystem
If you want to learn about the entrepreneurial eco-system in Latin America, call Patricia Araque, the founder of Ellas². And, if you want to understand not just the regional picture but distinct...
View ArticleFrom Strategy to Startup: One Chinese Woman’s Journey
With corporate, international and startup experience, Michelle Wang turned down offers from leading strategy consulting companies to join Capvision, a fast-growing startup with only 60 employees at the...
View ArticleThe Secret to a Thriving Global Economy
We loved this image from Google for International Women’s Day this year on March 8. Emerging economies all over the world are slowing down. We can look almost anywhere to find the reasons. China’s...
View ArticleInterview with Hong Kong Female Journalist
Originally from mainland China, she is currently writing her first book on her expat life in Hong Kong, working as a communication specialist at a British recruitment consultancy, and is a Forbes...
View ArticleTwo Tech-Savvy Indian Moms Dive into Entrepreneurship
Rivo means “stream or river” in Italian. Last year, two Indian tech-savvy moms with a background in IT found themselves navigating a new rivo. With the desire to do something new and meaningful that...
View ArticleFemale Chinese Journalist Relies on Intuition, Perseverance, Results
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Zhen Trudy Wang (Chinese name: 王真), Journalist at Caijing Magazine My entry into the journalism field was by coincidence, but also intuitive. After four years of studying and...
View ArticleYemeni Business Woman Designs Her Own Way
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Yemeni business woman Marwah Aziz is an architect and, along with four men, a co-investor in the investment firm the Basha Group. I am a simple Yemeni woman who was raised in a...
View ArticleProviding New Career Opportunities for Pakistani Women
What makes HerCareer.pk unique is not just the fact that it is the first online career community for women in Pakistan, or that it gives local employers access to a talent pool of qualified women, or...
View ArticleWhy 91% of Working Women Are Wrong
Ugh… 91% of 10,000 women surveyed believe that more senior roles involve longer hours and more pressure. That’s an unfortunate misperception! This Project 28-40 survey* targets 100,000 women in the UK...
View Article49 Ways That Work: Advance Your Career
We thought it would be helpful to recap, some of the ways that women around the world who we have spoken with credit as integral to their career success. It is a long list and it may at times seem to...
View ArticleTop Advice of 2013 From Women in Emerging Economies
We estimate there are 100 million highly educated women entrepreneurs and professionals at work in diverse sectors in developing and emerging economies. These women are CEOs, entrepreneurs, managers,...
View ArticleReflections & Reminders of What’s Most Important
Dinner with super-connector Lorena Diaz in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2013. Three huge, colorful Post-it notes hung on my wall this year. At eye level, they stared me in the face. I saw them...
View Article10 Ways to Communicate to Succeed
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Ritika Bajaj runs her own enterprise, a design and content house called MeritC2 – Creatives and Communications. In today’s work world, we have to ask for what we want and need in...
View ArticleWomen, The Future of Multinationals in Brazil
Globally, the number of women at the most senior levels of corporations has stagnated. But we saw something different when we met with senior women business leaders on our recent trip to Brazil. It was...
View ArticleWhy Argentinian Woman CEO Makes Mentoring a Priority
Maria Luisa Fulgueira, Owner and CEO of Daltosur S.R.L, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dedicates time each week to mentoring young women and men. “Every week I dedicate 10 hours to help young people with...
View ArticleThe Future Economic Engine of Latin America: Women Entrepreneurs
Central to the market slide in emerging economies is a crisis of market confidence. Signs of slowing growth across the globe have resulted in a broad-based market sell-off, dragging down emerging...
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