With child marriages cutting off the Yemeni girls’ access to education, endangering their health, and subjecting them to abuse, researchers and activists are calling for an end to this long-held practice.
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“Women are the foot soldiers of climate change adaptation.” By educating women in the rural areas on climate change and water management, they foster the program’s continued success. The participation of women is key to protecting the environment in various regions of the world.
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With the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s secular regime, the shift to more conservative Islamic values is beginning to be felt in Egypt. The launch of Maria TV, a television channel run and staffed exclusively by women wearing the niqab, is one of these major changes.
A gender and wage gap exists for women in media, a study released by Catalyst in July 2012 reports. The survey revealed that women were underrepresented in top management and governance positions in various media outfits around the world.
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Gallup’s Employed at Capacity for an Employer Index survey released on July 5, 2012 found that “women are significantly less likely than men to be employed at capacity for an employer in 38 of the 144 countries.”
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Women are dismally under-represented in corporate Asia, with only 6 percent of them seated on the boards and 8 percent on executive committees of 744 companies. Asia’s results are at rock bottom compared to the figures posted of women corporate leaders in Europe where 17 percent are in boards and 10 percent in executive committees, and in the United States where representation is at 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively.
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In a result that broke the image of the stereotypical Saudi Arabian woman, the Women in the MENA Workplace 2012 survey conducted by Bayt.com and YouGov revealed that 65 per cent of working women in Saudi Arabia said that their primary reason for employment was to “gain financial independence.” This was the highest of all the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions studied.
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In a landmark article in the Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter concludes: “If women are ever to achieve real equality as leaders, then we have to stop accepting male behavior and male choices as the default and the ideal. We must insist on changing social policies and bending career tracks to accommodate our choices, too.”
Accenture, a global management consulting company, has found that working women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are more ambitious than their peers elsewhere in the world.
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With the 2012 elections heating up, media coverage intensifies as well. But while men and women may have equal access to the print and broadcast media, research shows that women’s voices are stifled when it comes to getting quoted for their insights on such hot campaign issues as the budget, economy, education, foreign policy, national security, healthcare, and taxes, among others.