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Eileen Gu shines to win her first Games gold
( China Daily ) With the world hailing the arrival of a new sports superstar, China’s freeski Olympic champion Gu Ailing wants to remain the girl next door to inspire more youngsters to push their own boundaries. Carrying the host nation’s biggest medal hope on the snow, Gu, a versatile skier competing in three events …
Women’s working hours underscore gender disparity in Japan
(NikkeiAsia) TOKYO — A gender gap is still strongly discernible in Japan’s working environment with a bipolarization of working hours among female workers, casting a new shadow over the slowing growth of the Japanese economy. The participation of women in the Japanese workforce itself is increasing. The percentage of women in the 30 to 34 …
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China to Send First Female Taikonaut to Its Space Station
Wang Yaping will travel with two other astronauts as part of the country’s longest crewed mission to date.
The woman behind Cambodia’s moonshot Blockchain project
(The Khmer Times) As a little girl, Her Excellency Serey Chea was obsessed with “The X-Files” television program and the idea that we are not alone in this universe. Fascinated by the extraterrestrial and outer space, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But her father, Chanto Chea, who is governor of the National Bank of …
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BALANCE Polish girl power?
(The Polskie Radio) Only 2 out of 10 Polish companies have a female CEO, while the bigger the company the smaller representation of women there: 29% of small companies are chaired by a woman in Poland as opposed to 9% of the big ones. The situation is only a bit better when it comes to …
Being a dependent woman: deadly dangerous in a lockdown
(The Government of Netherlands) Before COVID-19, Shokh Mohammad went door to door in Iraqi Kurdistan to spread information about women’s rights. She and 11 other, equally dedicated women recently shared ideas about gender equality as part of the Women’s Leadership Programme (WLP) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She sees two concepts as essential for …
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Building an international network to help women leaders advance
(The Government of Netherlands) ‘In the Palestinian Territories more women than men study information and communication technology, but after graduation women are three times less likely to find employment in this field,’ says Mona Demaidi, who owns a tech company. This is an issue that she and 11 other women leaders from the Middle East …
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Swiss focus on equal pay and gender equality in New York
(The Swiss Info) At this year’s session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Switzerland is focusing on equal pay, women’s economic independence, sexual and reproductive health rights, and the fight against discrimination and violence. The main focus of the 65th CSW, which opened on Monday in New York, is the participation of …
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Japan: Keidanren aims for 30% of executives to be women
(NHK) The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, says it aims for women to fill more than 30 percent of top managerial posts in Japanese companies by 2030. The target was first announced in a long-term vision it developed last year. Keidanren says 53 of its member corporations will join an initiative called “A Challenge for …
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UAE women blazing trails in tech fields
(The Khaleej Times) According to the Arab Gulf State Institute, 40 per cent of university students specialising in computer science and IT in the Middle East are women Women across the UAE are proving that they are ‘future ready’ by blazing a trail across the technology field, and bringing valuable insights about the latest innovations …
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