Arab women are educated, determined and have increasing government support. What’s standing in their way? A report from the INSEAD seminar in Abu Dhabi…article

UK manufacturing is losing out because it is failing to recruit enough women engineers and scientists, a report warns today…article

Sheconomy a special show for the woman investors, it is an investor education initiative by DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund. This personal finance show is dedicated to answering questions of women viewers who look at achieving financial goals…article

Cultural practices have put the woman and girl-child at an economic disadvantage in many societies across the world. Their place is relegated to menial, low-paid and subsistence activities that are often uncounted in national statistics. Even in modern times, these trends have not changed and are now entrenched in the way resources are being allocated and opportunities presented in the society. As we celebrate this year’s International Day of Women, it has become pertinent to highlight the disadvantages faced by women in accessing financial services in Nigeria…article

It’s actually not that long ago that at our first Federal Election in 1901, only women from South Australia and Western Australia were entitled to vote. So women in all the other states were not allowed to vote. The other states did slowly followed yet it took Victoria another six years to let women vote…article

March 8 was International Women’s Day. With the ghastly crime late last year fresh in everyone’s mind, most of the public discourse was focused on women’s safety. However, when you dig deeply, many of the issues boil down to empowerment in an everyday sense, and one of the issues underlying empowerment is often money. article 

When the Finance Minister announced in the Budget plans to start an all-woman bank, it drew some predictable jibes from the male Twitterati. “A new bank only for women in India? The moment Zara announces its sale, this bank will announce its bankruptcy,” said one…article

The economy may be struggling to recover, but by one closely watched measure the fear that not long ago paralysed the markets has lifted…article