Eiko Hashiba left Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Tokyo in 2002 to give birth to a child at 23. Having to quit to look after her baby left her wondering why there weren’t more flexible ways for women to keep working in Japan, instead of leaving the workforce after having children. “I had my baby …
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A total of 11 million masks were given out to Singapore residents, along with free hand sanitiser, as part of efforts by Temasek to support the nation’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, about one million face shields were distributed to young schoolchildren and front-line workers in the food and beverage industry, while 250,000 …
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Orit Alperovitz and Inbal Polak were sick of being the only women in the room, so, they started a women-only investor club and are hoping to change the industry, one investment at a time. “We were sick of being the only women in the room,” Orit Alperovitz, co-founder and CEO of women-only Israeli angel investor …
She helped set up small processing units in Uttarakhand, their turnover of Dh497,269 now At just 28, food scientist Kirti Kumar’s passion for food, is empowering over 1,000 tribal women in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, to earn money using local resources. With the help of self-help groups (SHGs), she trains rural women to become …
A pair of New Plymouth teenagers want to take their message from the classroom to the masses as a means to create more awareness about climate justice. New Plymouth Girls’ High School students Ellie Dinnison and Annie Larsen have signed up for the 2020 Amnesty International Freedom Challenge as part of their social studies class. …
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