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This International Women's Day, March 8, 2023, the UN's theme 'DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality' could not be more timely given that we live in an increasingly digital world - whether that's through
our jobs or our access to services like healthcare.While there are increasingly more African women in leadership roles, they are still significantly under-represented but there are a number of things businesses can do to change…
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OPINIONISTA: International Women’s Day: We need more women in top leadership to rebuild SAWhile more than 60% of the national government workforce is comprised of women, the most senior positions are mostly held by men. This is a consistent trend across many institutions in both the public and private sectors in South Africa.
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Africa: How to Get More African Women Leaders in Business and TechGuest Column - While there are increasingly more African women in leadership roles, they are still significantly under-represented but there are a number of things businesses can do to change this ...
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Software engineering training targets 50K African womenTech skills initiative alx_africa partners with MastercardFdn to address digital gender divide in Africa with software engineering programme. CareerMoves TechSkills
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International Women's Day: Pope says equal opportunities for women are key to a better worldVATICAN CITY, March 8 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday decried violence and prejudice against women and said granting equal pay and opportunities could help create a more peaceful world, as a new survey of Catholic women showed that many felt the Church discriminated against them.
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Nigeria's 7.3 Million Young Girls, Women Undernourished - ReportA new global report by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has raised the alarm on the need to invest in essential nutrition programmes for adolescent girls and women as the number of Nigerian undernourished teenage girls and women of reproductive age soar to 7.3 million in three years. The report - Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women - issued ahead of International Women's Day - warns that the ongoing crises, aggravated by unending gender inequality, are deepening a nutrition crisis among adolescent girls and women that had already shown little improvement in the last two decades. It placed Nigeria among the 12 hardest hit countries by the global food and nutrition crisis. The other countries, includes Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen, represent the epicenter of a global nutrition crisis that has been increased by recent impacts of COVID-19 and exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and ongoing drought, conflict, and instability in some countries. The report calls for governments, development and humanitarian partners and donors, civil society organizations and development actors to transform food, health, and social protection systems for adolescent girls and women.
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Africa's Largest Film Festival Focuses On Strong WomenAt the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, or FESPACO, African cinema has freed itself from Western models, with women leading the way.
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