New Delhi: The UPA government is set to go all out to woo women in the coming budget with a slew of incentives including gender-oriented spending programmes, special savings schemes and greater tax exemptions covering everyone from students and professionals to widows and destitute women. ..article
Pursuing a career in finance is one of the best ways for a woman to get into a UK boardroom, according to Sarah Moyniham, group company secretary at Marshall of Cambridge...article
France has overtaken the United States in placing women on the boards of the world’s 200 largest companies, according to a study released on Friday.
The average percentage of female directors among Fortune Global 200 companies, the world’s largest by revenues, came to a modest 15 percent, according to the study by the Corporate Women Directors International (CWDI)…article
Africa’s chief attraction is that it has been growing while richer regions have stalled (see chart 1). Its demographic prospects are promising, too. As America, Europe and China age, Africa can expect a bulge of workers in their productive prime. Though skills are in short supply, they are becoming more abundant. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the consulting firm’s research unit, in 2002 only 32% of Africans had secondary or tertiary education, but by 2020, 48% will have. The continent can call on degree-laden expatriates such as Mr Ndiaye and Uyi Stewart, the Nigerian chief scientist of IBM’s Nairobi lab. Article
President Obama wants the US economy to be more like Germany’s. What does this mean and is it either possible or desirable? Article
With a staff to help manage her 9000 square foot home and her children, can Sheryl Sandberg understand other women’s issues? Though Sandberg is a proponent of women negotiating for themselves and getting what they’re worth, even she has been timid in the past. She admits that her husband and brother-in-law had to push her to negotiate for a better salary and benefits package when Mark Zuckerberg offered her the position at Facebook. Article
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will attend the Sunday inauguration of South Korea’s first female president, Park Geun-hye, and plans to hail women’s empowerment in government, her office said on Saturday…article
Several eurozone countries are likely to miss deficit cutting targets because of a weak economy, the European Commission is expected to forecast today (22 February), but they may be granted extra leeway rather than face disciplinary action.
The European Union executive will publish economic forecasts for the 27-nation bloc for 2013 and 2014…article