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Sushma Swaraj pulls up Pune techie for requesting wife's transfer on Twitter
The request was a from a man who identified himself as a techie from Pune whose wife was employed by the Indian Railways and stationed in Jhansi. “If you or your wife were from my Ministry and such a request for transfer was made on twitter, I would have sent a suspension order by now,” tweeted back Swaraj “Can u plz help us in ending our banwas (exile) in India? My wife is in Jhansi Rly employee and I work in Pune in IT. Been a year+,” said the post on Swaraj’s timeline.
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How did SUNITA WILLIAMS look after this haircut???? As gorgeous as ever. She says, she has enough time to grow hair on the ISS space station.(Photo credit: Sunita williams) View the live video of the launch of Soyuz spacecraft and also hear her voice. http://capacitybuildingvideo.blogspot.com/ Expedition 32 Flight Engineers Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft at 10:40 p.m. EDT Saturday from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls 03-09
Video: Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls. What I've come to realize about Afghanistan, and this is something that is often dismissed in the West, that behind most of us who succeed is a father who recognizes the value in his daughter and who sees that her success is his success.It's not to say that our mothers aren't key in our success.
Realizing gender equality’s $12 trillion economic opportunity 05-18
So what will it actually take to turn this potential into reality? Our new discussion paper, Delivering the power of parity: Toward a more gender-equal society, provides an agenda for action and investment, quantifying the progress needed on 15 gender-inequality indicators. It finds that while much of the $12 trillion opportunity comes from advancing gender equality in the world of work, progress there is closely tied to tackling gender gaps in society more broadly. In particular, improved…
Against the Odds: Educating Girls Globally 04-11
Yacoobi will discuss the constraints that girls and women face to receiving an education in Afghanistan, and highlight the work that she and other social entrepreneurs have advanced, under the most challenging conditions, to support the educational opportunities of girls against the odds. She is an award-winning social innovator who has devoted her life to creating educational opportunities for girls and women. Bokova will address the same issues from the perspective of the international…
52% of women have been bullied or harassed at work in the past three years 04-19
52% of women said they felt bullied or harassed at work The organisation spoke to more than 23,000 women and 2,000 men about their experiences at work and found that women routinely feel undermined and excluded by their colleagues. Women with disabilities, who were black or African-Caribbean, or LGBT suffered more bullying and harassment, with 71% of disabled women reporting instances of it.
3 ways gender mainstreaming can change the way we do development 03-14
3 ways gender mainstreaming can change the way we do development. Since gender inequality is rooted in so many different aspects of a country’s institutions and culture, it’s not surprising that addressing vulnerabilities and empowering women requires an integrated approach. Three powerful ways that mainstreaming gender can change the way we do development and improve women’s engagement and participation include:
3 ways gender mainstreaming can change the way we do development 03-14
3 ways gender mainstreaming can change the way we do development. Although the factors that influence women’s vulnerability are complex, the solution to address this vulnerability doesn’t have to be: committing to mainstreaming gender considerations into all activities of development programs, regardless of technical focus. The most effective way to address women’s empowerment is to ensure that all activities and programs in a development portfolio incorporate gender factors so that…