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Saudi Arabia issues first driversâ licenses to women
Ban to be lifted on 24 June

New compound advertisement accused of insulting women, owner apologises
Ad stars Hany Salama, shows compound as place for men to escape their annoying, nagging wives

Gender inequality: A continuing crisis
In Egypt, men resistant to women working outside homes, participating in aspects of political, public life, study says

Saudi Arabia to outlaw sexual harassment ahead of lifting ban on women driving
Bill introduces jail sentence up to five years, $80,000 fineÂ

Saudi Arabia releases four women’s rights activists after crackdown
Rights groups have called on Saudi authorities to release all activists arrested for campaigning for women’s rights

No legislative provision prohibiting women’s appointment in judiciary: Kamal
67 female judges serving in Egypt, says counsellor

Womenâs Ramadan consumed by housework
Female spiritual needs neglected in Ramadan

The Cachette: Exhibition featuring womenâs hidden emotional status
Display featured various types of art; paintings, photographs, hand-stitched figures made of wool and sponges; each artist referred to mixture of feelings women experience in their lives

NCW to monitor womenâs of women in Ramadan dramas, commercials
Based on the social responsibility of the National Council for Women (NCW), Suzan Al-Kalini, head of the media committee at the NCW, announced that the council has formed a committee to monitor the image of women in the series, commercials, and programmes to be screened on television during the holy month of Ramadan. During the …

Microsoft Egypt launches campaign to train more than 1,500 Egyptian women
Microsoft Egypt launched a women’s empowerment campaign under the hashtag #MakeWhatsNext, aimed at motivating young women to develop their skills and discover various professions in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. As part of the initiative, Microsoft Egypt collaborated with several governmental and non-governmental organisations around the world to organise a series of events …

Women account for one-third of workforce in Egypt: El-Ghazaly
Women represent 22.9% of workforce in Egypt, according to latest statistics, says El-Ghazaly

Egyptian woman fights connotations attached to divorced women
Failure in marriage is not worldâs end, says founder of New Beginning initiative

Egypt pays great attention to scientific, economic empowerment of women: Nasr
Females represent 43% of all scientists in Egypt, says Sakr

What defines relationship between women’s economic empowerment, basic education?
The head of Egyptian Feminist Union, Hoda Badran, conducted a study in cooperation with the United Nations Women’s office to answer the above question. It was conducted across six Arab countries: Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, and Bahrain. Economic policies, cultural heritage disrupt women’s empowerment The study showed that the high level of women’s …

Women in business world: Shining despite challengesÂ
By 2022, about 1bn women expected to be ready to enter mainstream economy as employers, producers, entrepreneurs

Women are always portrayed as victims, weak creatures in drama: study
Art is not only reason for low status of women; other factors include education, other media, says Al-Shafei

Saving the environment, empowering women
Vickie FrĂ©mont, a French woman born in Cameroon, is a modern day heroine. For the past several years she has been conducting workshops around the world, using a hands-on approach for the transformation of rejects or trash into useful everyday objects. Included in her workshopsâwhich take place in schools, community centres, universities, and even in …

Women who seek freedom from cultural constraints
Every young woman wants to achieve success in her personal and professional life, but the path to success can be tricky and navigating it requires being proactive in several aspects of oneâs life. Even though the path to success is always accompanied by many challenges, including the cultural constraints that are defined by society’s rules, …

Polling stations grant women places to express
Women, often facing sexual harassment in public, free to dance during presidential election, sometimes for small sums of money

3.5m women, their families across Egyptâs villages reached through Your Vote for Tomorrowâs Egypt campaign
Maya Morsi, National Council for Women (NCW) president, announced at a press statement on Sunday that Your Vote for Tomorrowâs Egypt campaign succeeded in reaching 3.5 million women and their families in villages across all of Egyptâs governorates through 1,219 public meeting and 489 door-knock campaigns over 56 days. As Egypt is about to embark …

How can women achieve happiness after marriage?
Newly-wed couples regularly suffer much from the fear of the unknown and stress arises when they think of the new stage in their life that they are embarking on. Then, after marriage, they discover that marriage life goes through many changes and developments; sometimes it is boring, or dominated by routine, and other times, it’s …

Gender inequality in film
Women are still at a disadvantage in the film industry, underrepresented in key creative positions, according to several equality-focused rights group, whose discourse has been coming back to the surface in recent years. Along with sexual harassment in the film industry, there is a huge gap in female representation in the media. The New York …

Why does Egypt celebrate 16 March?
The march of Egyptian women is fraught with struggle to achieve their political and social rights. By stopping at some critical moments in the history of Egypt, observers can find that women’s movements, for nearly two centuries, have been able to be effective and to create change Egyptian women have struggled throughout history and proven …

Women report more unwanted calls than men: Truecaller
Celebrating International Women’s Day, Truecaller released a report on receiving unwanted calls and reporting them based on gender. The results of the report showed that women around the world block 19% more unwanted calls than men. In Egypt, women receive unwanted calls 30% more than women in other regions. Egyptian women are 26% more likely …

L’Oreal invests about $800m annually in research empower this promising sector: Mokhtar
Company seeks to enrich the field of scientific research with superior female models of researchers, says General Manager of Lâoreal Egypt Â

How will different institutions in Egypt celebrate the IWD?
The eighth of March will bring together global governments, women organisations, businesses, and charities together under the banner of International Women’s Day (IWD), an event dedicated to celebrating to what extent women achieved success in society, politics, and economics. Meanwhile, the day has political roots due to strikes and protests that are often organised to …

Ammanii unites women with one âSa’maaâ
“Whether you are in the east or the west, you are still covered by the same sky. You do not get an extra piece because you come from a different background or believe in a different religion or have a different skin colour,” says the designerÂ

Egyptian woman digs her name among the world caricaturists
I preferred to make women the heroines for my first book as I found that women have no caricature book that focuses on their issues in the Arab world, Says El Adl

4th Business Women of Egypt 21: Path to lifting Arab womenâs conditionsÂ
Egypt is full of success stories led by women who overcame struggles, managed to earn financial incomes; they are considered role models, says Arab League member With the aim of supporting women to have steady feet in economic markets and help them establish their own startups in the fields they are passionate about, the 4th …

Women receive 51% of total loans offered by SMEDA in 2017
Women more likely than men to pay off loans, the rate of default almost nonexistent, says Gamea