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Portal to promote Women Entrepreneurship
Gender Equality 07/06/2013This women’s entrepreneurship portal aims at providing links to the websites of women entrepreneurs’ representative organisations, networks, projects and events
WES – the European network to promote women’s entrepreneurship
Gender Equality 07/06/2013The European Commission launched The European Network to Promote Women’s Entrepreneurship (WES). It has members from 31 European countries (EU,
Social entrepreneurship
News 06/06/2013I met Sonia Quispe and her mother, Doña Dominga Taco, in 1998. It was 2:00 am and they were opening
High-Level Seminar on Gender Equality in the Labour Market on 27 June 2013, Brussels, Belgium
Gender Equality 05/06/2013The seminar aims at sharing with EU level stakeholders experiences and expertise coming from equality bodies’ work on the promotion
Gender equality?: ‘Society not ready to accept women in politics’
Gender Equality 05/06/2013Claiming women’s political participation in the future was at risk, female political leaders and former MPAs say society has yet
Statistics on Women on Boards
Gender Equality 04/06/2013The Knowledge Center of the Catalyst website provides extensive statistics on women on boards. The statistics contain recent figures on
Calling gender experts: UN Women announces new Roster of Gender Experts and Trainers
Gender Equality 03/06/2013UN Women, in collaboration with the UN System Staff College, today launched a call for experts to sign up to
Sexual assault: Women lawmakers push for change in US military
Gender-based Violence 03/06/2013In the latest in a string of sexual assault cases in the military, US Naval Academy football players are accused
Will The Rise In Female Breadwinners Spark Women’s Entrepreneurship?
Gender Equality 03/06/2013With 40% of households with children under 18 now supported by female breadwinners – and the corporate world doing little to acknowledge
Facebook locks out campaigner against images of violence against women
Gender-based Violence 02/06/2013Facebook has blocked an administrator of an Australian feminist page for uploading a poster that encouraged people to voice their