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16 Jul 2018
Agriculture Tech And Investing Needs A Diversity Overhaul. Here's How.
The gender imbalances in venture capital investment and in high-growth technology companies are well cited. Only 9% of decision makers in VC are ...
agriculture // agribusiness // agricultural investment // agricultural technology
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13 Oct 2017
Women are Pivotal to Addressing Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty
Food security and gender equality and women's empowerment are ... to challenge humanity if gender disparities in agriculture, food security and ...
Food Security // agriculture // poverty
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09 Aug 2017
Water, sanitation a lifeline for women
Lack of access to water and sanitation results in women working in an ... The Guidelines for Integrating Gender-based Violence Interventions in ...
water & sanitation // WASH // Zimbabwe // human rights
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09 Aug 2017
Women Are at the Heart of Development in Pakistan
The two most commonly used indices are the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index (GGI) and the United Nations Development Program's ...
gender equality
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08 Aug 2017
The Gender Gap Cannot Be Measured in Just Dollars
The Gender Gap Cannot Be Measured in Just Dollars ... Young girls and women collecting water from a water spring situated in a cabbage field ...
gender gap // gender equality // social justice
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08 Aug 2017
Women In Medicine Face the Same Barriers to Success as Women in Tech
The episode also underscores the struggles that women face in STEM and related ... time-consuming field that requires extensive and expensive education. ... The gender gap in medicine, as with STEM overall, is prevalent in both ...
gender gap // women in SITE // medicine & health
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08 Aug 2017
Leading Tech Firms Committed to Closing Skills Gap by Promoting Women in STEM
Similarly, Oracle has invested $3 million to educate girls in STEM fields ... Even Google, who had some gender and diversity-related issues a few ...
women in technology // gender gap
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24 Mar 2017
Greater attention to gender equality key to inclusive human devt – report
paying greater attention to gender equality will support faster and more inclusive human development and economic growth for Africa, the 2016 Africa ...
gender in development // international development // UNDP
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23 Mar 2017
Why Empowering Women is key to sustainable development in Hindu Kush Himalayas?
Their fight is not only for gender equality; it also reflects their hunger for empowerment as a means of ensuring sustainable development. NewsGram ...
mountain development // land rights // ICIMOD
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09 Mar 2017
Gender equity, key to national development
”For any development to take place in the society, there has to be gender equity,” Madawaki, also a former Commissioner for Women Affairs in the ...
gender equity // Nigeria