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For example, in Pakistan, female entrepreneurs account for only 1% of this gender's population, while in Zambia 40% of women are engaged in this activity. The highest number of females involved in entrepreneurial activities can be seen in Sub-Saharan Africa, with 27% of the female population.
The Women's University of Science and Technology, which is the first all-women's university in Kenya, allows women to access higher education and entrepreneurial training. [32] These programs have empowered women to create small to medium-size enterprises, such as tailoring and bead-making.
The Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (Pub. L. 115–6 (text), H.R. 255) is a public law amendment to the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act (Pub. L. 96–516) to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world.
Women have made major strides in the workplace -- in the U.S., women now represent 47% of the workforce, according to the latest stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yet, North American women...
Adding women back into men's biographies, organizations they participated in, or other women's lives is another means of restoring the historical contributions of women. There may not be sufficient sourcing available now to meet Wikipedia notability standards, but as information becomes available, adequate information may come to light for a ...
[4] [5] In the computer sciences, women in early pictures of computers were assumed to be models, when in fact, they were programmers. [6] Later, women computer programmers were actively pushed out of the field and then forgotten by history. [7] The men working on technology projects are celebrated and the women ignored. [8]
When I ask why she’s writing the book now, she doesn’t hesitate. “I've suppressed so much in my life, and the pain has been terrible.” She pauses and pivots.
A role model is a person whose behaviour, example, or success serves as a model to be emulated by others, especially by younger people. [1] The term role model is credited to sociologist Robert K. Merton, [2] [3] who hypothesized that individuals compare themselves with reference groups of people who occupy the social role to which the individual aspires, [4] an example of which is the way ...