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Fellow males, get onboard, boost women in business: Buffett
The key to America's future success lies in helping women achieve as much as their male counterparts, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said in an essay published on Thursday that echoes a recent debate about gender roles in Corporate America. #Warren Buffett #Women #Gender equality #Coprorate America
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Female techie fired after tweeting about sexual comments
A female software developer was fired after tweeting about and posting an image of a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming conference, fueling an already vigorous debate about gender equality and culture in Silicon Valley. #Silicon Valley #Twitter #didyouknow #Gender equality
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Aamir Khan blames patriarchal mindset for gender inequality
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, who has been at the forefront of a debate on gender equality, on Tuesday blamed the "patriarchal mindset" of people for the lesser status of women in society. #Aamir Khan #BuzzPatrol #David Cameron #Gender equality
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European CommissionChallenging the public's view of gender and science
According to She Figures 2012, which analyses gender equality in research, in 2010 women accounted for only 10 % of university rectors in Europe and 15.5 % were heads of institutions of the higher education sector. Although, the research has shown that t #European Commission #Copenhagen
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Harper's Bazaar UKMy Big Idea: Equality Now
Yasmeen Hassan is on the Advisory Board of Chime for Change and is the Global Director of Equality Now, an international human rights organisation. Here she explains how she was radicalised by her childhood in Pakistan My Big Idea is very simple. It is h #Pakistan #Yemen
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China DailyGender income gap continues to widen
Although China has made remarkable progress in narrowing gender inequality, challenges including the income gap between men and women remain, said top officials from the country's largest women's organization on Wednesday. Shen Yueyue, the newly-elected #China #Beijing #South Korea