Posts for 'Working Women' Category

Women today needs to do the work because most of the families are now requiring more than one person in the house to work just to meet the daily expenses and in fulfilling all the basic needs in life.

In early times when women have just started working, there was an assumption by many of the people, businesses and companies that men should receive more money, for the same job, because they were originally the "bread winners" for the family.

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Women can be described as a unique creation of God because even though she appears fragile and soft, she has the infinite power to endure and sacrifice and live life with a sense of responsibility and to re-mould difficulties with a sheer sense of confidence and strength. The power of a woman is often underestimated and they are frequently taken for granted. But, she knows to fight back and reach those stars which she always wanted to catch. Working women are endowed with the exceptional ability to multi-task and NAPW or the National association of Professional Women is providing a safe and secure platform to professional women to connect and boost their professional life in the best way possible.

The National Association of Professional Women has turned out to be an exclusive forum for career-oriented women, who find this as a wonderful opportunity to interact and help each other in order to gear up each others career lines. This network site aims to provide the right kind of skills, services and discussions to help professional women to understand their direction in life and also brings women from similar and distinct backgrounds to interrelate with each other, on personal, social and professional grounds. The motive of launching NAPW was to offer to the working-class women careful insights and skills discussion on a very productive level.

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Gone are the days when women would stay back at home and do the house hold cores. Today, women are making use of their skills. They stand shoulder to shoulder to a man. Their work at times can be so hectic that they may hardly be able to spend their time on taking care of their health and their fitness regime. So we shall see the different ways of how working women can stay fit. As she has got to take care of the rest of the family as well.

Yoga is an age old practice that keeps the mind, soul and body fit. Many working women practice yoga for its power and strength. There are 8 parts of yoga.

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President Jacob Zuma said women’s empowerment was not merely a numbers game, the SABC reported on Saturday. Zuma was addressing the Progressive Women’s Movement dinner in Sandton on Friday. The president warned against the under representation of women.

"It has been consistently demonstrated globally that the under representation of women in politics and decision making positions has an adverse effect on national development as a whole," he said. Zuma explained his vision for South Africa’s women, the report said.

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Recently Lisa, a coaching client said to me:

"Iris, they lied to me. They said I could have it all. They said I could have my family, work outside the home and be able to take care of it all. They lied."

If you are like most women, you feel the pressure of 'having it all'. As much as the 'working woman' is not a new phenomenon to us, this model has only been around for a couple of generations. 'Women in the work force' is a fairly current shift in society that became popular during the Second World War when there was a shortage of men. Women whose only option had been to take care of the family were elated at finally having the ability and opportunity to work outside the home and earn money. The problem that followed this shift was that they did not have a wife who could take over their duties at home. Working mothers now faced the expectation of handling both the demands of work and the demands of maintaining their home and nurturing their family. What was once handled by two people was now being handled by one.

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For more than 40 years, more and more women are working full time jobs and raising families. We are mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and friends. We do our best to have “it” all, but at what cost?

Now, more than ever before, we must pay attention to the quality of our lives.
Being better, faster, smarter is not a healthy, balanced way to live.

Think about this:If you were to monitor one weekday in your life, what would it look like?

Would this sound familiar?

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More women are working than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Office.
 
“Global employment trends for women – March 2008”, released on the
occasion of International Women’s Day, says that the number of employed
women grew by almost 200 million over the last decade, to reach 1.2 billion in 2007 compared to 1.8 billion men. How-ever, the number of unemployed women also grew from 70.2 to 81.6 million over the same period.
 
“Women continue to enter the world’s workforce in great numbers. This progress must not obscure the glaring inequities that still exist in work-places throughout the world,” said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. “The workplace and the world of work are at the centre of global solutions to address gender equality and the advancement of women in society. By promoting decent work for women, we are empowering societies and advancing the cause of economic and social development for all.”
 
The report shows that improvements in the status of women in labour markets throughout the world have not substantially narrowed gender gaps in the work-place. The share of women in vulnerable employment – either unpaid contributing family workers or own-account workers, rather than wage and salaried work – decreased from 56.1 to 51.7 percent since 1997. However the burden of vulnerability is still greater for women than men, especially in the world’s poorest regions.

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A pin presented in 1996 to Rev. Lynne Holden, interim pastor of the Harbor Church, has served as a springboard for the somewhat-surprising discovery that one of the first ideas for a statue to stand atop the Statehouse in Providence was that of a woman called Hope.

Holden’s pin depicts a female figure clad in a helmet and a knee-length tunic; she is holding a spear in her right hand and touches an anchor with her left. Holden says that she understood the pin represented a figure referred to as Rhode Island’s “independent woman.”

The small gold pin was given to her by Virginia O’Shan, a member of the Rhode Island Commission on Women (RICW), which celebrates Rhode Island women for their work in the arts, business, economic development, education, health and politics.

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The issues, challenges and socio-cultural hazards faced by working women can be categorized well by putting them into professional environment, according to a research study.The study titled "Repressed Resources: Gender Gap in Labour Market, Issues and Challenges in the Formal Sector" by Nasira Habib was launched on Friday.The ceremony was organized by an NGO Bargad in collaboration with Department of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University. It was chaired by Chaudhry Manzoor, Incharge Peoples' Labour Bureau. About 91 per cent of the industrialists,

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Women are faced with "reinforced concrete" rather than the typical "glass ceiling" as they try to make headway in the worlds of politics and business, a new report claims today.

Research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Scotland found gender equality progress in high-profile workplaces had largely stalled, and even gone into reverse in some cases - with only a few significant increases in female representation.

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