International Women’s Day Is Marked Worldwide

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Kathrin Katanoba

“Equality for women is progress for all”.

That is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, being celebrated today, March 8, across the world.

Lamenting discrimination against women and girls worldwide, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said: “Where men and women have equal rights, societies prosper.”

Organisers of a rally marking the event in the Philippines capital, Manila, couldn’t agree more.

“The reason why we are doing this is because we want to reaffirm our commitment to create an enabling environment for women to become better in what they do,” said Organising Committee Partner, Gilda Patricia Maquilan.

“In that way, they can help in uplifting the lives of their family and their communities.”

The Manila rally, at the Quirino grandstand,involved thousands of women standing in a giant human formation of the cross-like female scientific symbol.

Not only was it a huge statement on behalf of women but the female formation could also make it into the Guinness Book of Records.

Give Women Credit: Financial Empowerment Matters

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Kathrin Katanoba

Deep-rooted attitudes on money

My work led me to question the deep-rooted attitudes about money. Why is it that some women feel they don’t understand money? What stops a woman from being interested in money and managing it? It is a vicious circle.
Give women credit Financial empowerment matters

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As 13th century Anatolian spiritual leader, poet and philosopher Celaleddin Rumi put it, “A candle doesn’t lose anything from its light by lighting other candles.” So ladies and gentlemen, husbands, fathers, brothers, bosses, banks, governments, everybody: give women credit! Let us light up half the population by giving them financial freedom.

Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Man

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Kathrin Katanoba

Gender is once again on the World Economic Forum’s agenda. At this year’s Annual Meeting, a series of sessions will focus on the desirability of advancing the rights and economic power of women and girls around the world, and of continuing to close the gender gap in Western C-suites, boardrooms, parliaments and presidencies. These discussions will build on the Global Gender Gap Report 2013, published last November. Although many countries, including developed countries, still have far to go, the proportion of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies is inching upwards. Indeed, the appointment of Mary Barra, the first woman CEO of General Motors, gives new meaning to the old American line: “What’s good for GM is good for the country.”
Behind every great woman is a great man/PDF
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Obama Backs off Spying?

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Lily Fleur

Are secret courts enough?

President Barack Obama today unveiled what his administration called the biggest reforms to U.S. surveillance programs since he took office.

Obama said he was ordering changes that will end the bulk collection of metadata “as it currently exists, and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk metadata.”

Obama said that intelligence analysts now will need approval from secret courts to go into phone records routinely stored by the National Security Agency.

The President also called on Congress to authorize a new panel of outside advocates to participate in “significant cases” before the secret court that handles intelligence collection issues

“Unless there is a compelling national security purpose,” Obama said, the U.S. won’t monitor the communications of foreign leaders.

L’Affaire Hollande

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Lily Fleur

A not very French reaction: Kim Willsher writes:

Twenty years ago, a French president could carry on any extramarital activity in the knowledge that privacy laws and a respectful press would keep his secret. Editors and politicians colluded to ensure the public would never know. Love lives were strictly off limits to the media. The pinnacle of this self-censorship came in 1994, when Paris Matchmagazine obtained photos of Mazarine Pingeot, then aged 20, illegitimate daughter of President François Mitterrand and his lover Anne Pingeot. In a move that still astonishes the British media, Paris Matchhad sought Mitterrand’s approval before publishing the pictures.

Today, France’s privacy laws remain as draconian as ever, but the celebrity press, battling with the internet and social media, has become much less respectful. The reason is largely financial: fines for breaking the privacy laws are paltry, and soon offset by boosted sales.

In 2008, Closer, whose circulation fell from 493,000 in 2008 to 341,000 in 2012-2013, was ordered to pay €30,000 to the former first lady, Cécilia Sarkozy, after showing her in a bikini looking at a picture of her successor, Carla Bruni. Last week’s “Hollande” edition is a sellout.

The 10 Most Powerful Women In Finance For 2014

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Kathrin Katanoba

It was a big week for women in finance as Janet Yellen was voted to be the next head of the Federal Reserve. It is an elite group that she joins. So here are my choices for the top ten women in finance:
The 10 most powerful women in finance for 2014

30th Chaos Communication Congress

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Kathrin Katanoba

The 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) is an annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops and various events on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society.
Livestream on you tube:

Official website: http://events.ccc.de/ / http://www.ccc.de/
Twitter: #30c3 @ccc
Berliner Zeitung
Kongress des Chaos Computer Clubs Das Woodstock der Anti-NSA-Hacker

Women in Conflict

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Lily Fleur

Around the world, the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship is fraught. Blame Oedipus.

In India,he mother-in-law syndrome reflects the skewed power relations between the sexes, as well as strife between the generations. The imbalance begins at (or before) birth. Even today, girls are likelier than boys to die in childhood; they often receive less food, schooling or medical care, or are simply abandoned. This is largely because males still wield economic power. Boys generally inherit land and other assets, and are far likelier to bring home wages. Girls are passed to other families as wives and domestic labour. Women in Conflict

Women Entrepreneurs in Germany

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Andi Howe

The Goethe Institute backs women entrepreneurs. Here is a video they produced.

Nelson Mandela, Healer, Politician, Prince Among Men

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Lily Fleur

Nelson Mandela and Winnie came to New York soon after he was released from prison. Many of us lined the streets to seen this luminescent man who appeared to have no anger or resentment after his 27 year confinement. He went on to do what many thought was impossible in South Africa: without much bloodshed apartheid ended. RIP Mandela Lessons for Life

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