The everywoman Conference Scotland
Now in its second year, The everywoman Conference Scotland is the premier event for female business owners looking for ideas and inspiration to grow a business.
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by Elizabeth Harrin (London)
Do you tweet? Twitter is a micro-blogging tool that allows you to ‘tweet’ anything – as long as it fits within 140 characters, which is the length of a standard text message. That is what has made it so popular, as you can send and receive messages by phone, or if you prefer via instant messaging or a website. People use it to update their friends with how they are and what they are doing. On the receiving end, you can choose people to receive updates from – your family, celebrities or interesting commentators.
Curious? Once you have a Twitter account you can both update your own status and receive updates from other people whom you have chosen to ‘follow’. Yes, Twitter comes with a whole new language. Since logging on for the first time recently I have learnt about following, tweeting and retweeting, hashtags, @ responses, direct messages. There isn’t space here to explain how to use Twitter to its full advantage, but there are plenty of websites dedicated to just that.
There is a lot of noise on Twitter. People send updates about their last cup of coffee, and British comedian and presenter Stephen Fry made headlines recently when he tweeted about being stuck in a lift. The information comes to you in real time format, but that doesn’t make it interesting. So how do you know who to follow? The best advice is to choose people who interest you and whom you have come across from another source. Bloggers, for example, may blog once or twice a week (like me) but tweet on a daily basis. Using Twitter you will get instant notification of new blog posts but also useful, short titbits more regularly: things that aren’t shared on the blog. I have wasted many an evening reading the profiles of the people being followed by someone I am following. If you follow my meaning.
All successful leaders come to a point in their careers when further advancement is contingent upon further refining a set of crucial analytic and communication skills. TheWomen’s Executive Leadership Retreat will give you the skills needed to recognize and transcend the barriers holding you back so that you can make your career goals a reality. By examining leaders’ challenges through a feminine perspective, you will better appreciate when and why gender matters in organizational advancement. Finally, our program has partnered with the Greater Good Science Center and is uniquely focused on helping women achieve balance between career advancement and personal happiness.
An extraordinary evening event featuring: Texas Hold ‘Em and Black Jack Tournaments, Roulette, Craps, an art sale, a sit-down dinner, and more.
High Water Women (HWW) has been committed to supporting the most vulnerable women and children in New York since the organization was founded in 2005. This year our beneficiaries need your support more than ever to continue providing their most essential and fundamental programs, such as: education, alleviation of family homelessness, at-risk teens and women’s health, and the overall economic empowerment of women.
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The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will consider the theme: “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS” at its 53rd session .
The work in the Commission will be guided by two reports of the Secretary-General on the theme: one will identify and discuss key issues in sharing of responsibilities between women and men and suggest policy recommendations; and a second will provide an overview of mainstreaming efforts related to sharing of responsibilities at national level.
In the context of its new working methods, the Commission will begin its consideration of the issue of “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS” through three interactive activities:
- A roundtable for high-level participants from capitals (at the level of ministers, deputy-ministers and principal secretaries) focused on experiences, lessons learned and good practices, including results with supporting data, where available,
- an interactive expert panel of technical experts to identify key policy initiatives in order to accelerate the implementation of previous commitments; and
- an interactive expert panel of technical experts and statisticians which will focus on capacity-building for gender mainstreaming in relation to the theme. The panel will provide an opportunity for an exchange of national and regional experiences, lessons learned and good practices, including on results with supporting data, where available.
The key elements in the consideration of the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men are: accelerating implementation of previous commitments at national level, including through sharing experiences, lessons learned and good practices; increasing attention to information and data needs; enhancing capacity to mainstream the issue; and identifying further key policy initiatives to move implementation forward.
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by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
The “Motor City” as it’s affectionately called, is home to Motown, the American automobile industry, and to Kim Harris Jones, the first African-American female Vice President in Chrysler history. “I was born and raised in Detroit and when you’re born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, it’s not hard to be brought into the auto industry. My father retired from General Motors as an assembly line worker, my sister worked at Ford, and I’ve had many other family members who worked in the auto industry, so it wasn’t a big leap,” Jones said.
Contributed by Martin Mitchell of the Corporate Training Group
In case you were too busy to have kept up with all the news, contributor Martin Mitchell has gathered some important market events from last week to help you start this week well informed:
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