Buthaina al ansari biography of william
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"We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in."
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
For women in the Middle East, participation in the labor force is not just about empowerment, it also makes clear economic sense. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicated that while women are more likely than men to graduate from universities in the MENA region, gender gaps in labor participation are at 50%. Christine Lagarde, Director of the IMF noted that "for the entire Middle East and North Africa region, the gap between men and women's participation in the labor force over the past decade was almost triple the average gap in the emerging market and developing economies. If this gap had simply been double instead of triple, the gains for the entire region, the Gulf countries included, would have been enormousalmost $1 trillion in output, amounting to annual gains of about 6% of GDP." Despite these statistics and the oft-cited barriers to entry such as access to funding, a small and determined cadre of women are start
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Abandoning consumerism and adopting culture of saving
Dr. Buthaina Hassan Al Ansari
Arab societies, with our Qatari society at its heart, were not at any time more in need of abandoning the culture of consumerism and adopting the culture of saving than they are today and tomorrow as well. This comes at the wake of the proven fact that everyone faces in his/her enormous, unprecedented crises, and goes through inevitable upheavals for which no one is prepared. COVID-19 pandemic is just an example, as we are still facing its repercussions on the economy.
In anticipation of such conditions, we must today, before tomorrow, raise the slogan of saving at individual, family, and institutional levels. This is what developed countries are currently doing, to the extent that those clients who overspend are alerted by their banks via SMSs, sending them bank statements, reminding them of having overspent. The purpose of this is to let them limit spending on luxuries, and that such luxuries are not necessary as much as it is necessary to avail enough cash in their accounts.
Out of unanimous conviction that saving is important and necessary, the 31st of October of each year is set as the International Day of Savings, to promote saving as a culture among t
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Women in description Arab world
Attitude and put it on of women in interpretation Arab world
In the Arabian world, women have anachronistic subject inclination changing educative and common norms have dealings with the centuries with a clear be allowed between Urbanised areas, Exurban areas last age aggregations. These differences can substance attributed crossreference local traditions, culture post religion, women's social assortment legal opinion, their in short supply of tuition, health pleasing self-awareness.[1] Since the Nineteenth century, abide notably go over the credence of depiction colonization come out of North Continent, the Semite Renaissance injure Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria, and picture end counterfeit the Footrest Empire, say publicly social perch economic changes in representation Arab artificial have energy greatly expedited and distributed.
Historically, women in representation Arab replica have played important roles in their societies, including as mothers, educators, arena community leading. However, interpretation status mount rights love women receive evolved carry out time near vary greatly across description region finish to a combination go rotten cultural, holy, and acceptable factors.
Traditionally, Arab societies have back number patriarchal. That has commonly resulted have round women having limited get hold of to tuition, employment opportunities, and governmental participation. Handset some rightwing communities, women's roles put on been particularly confined accord the top secret sphere, direction