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Women: The Ideal Managers: Women and their skills are always a point to be discussed everywhere. Often the question arises - Are they better managers both at home and office? Are they capable of administering their skills in a proper manner? Are they good at handling responsibility both within and outside the family? To all these questions, the only answer that can be provided is a positive attitude by saying ‘YES'. In every sphere of life, women have proved that they are at par with men and sometimes better off than men in handling responsibility and administering skills, particularly in management.

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Many men have a difficult time dating women. This is especially true on those dreaded first dates. Many men wonder what to say and how to best say it. They wonder how the date is going and if the time is right for that all-important first kiss. Here is some advice for guys on how to successfully date women.

Things were much simpler in the past. The world was different and women were different. We should celebrate the changes because those changes brought us great progress. These changes also brought changes to the world of dating. Men must adapt to those changes when dating women if they expect to succeed.

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September was a good month for women looking for jobs, according to the latest Statistics Canada report. For men, not so much. Last month’s overall employment gains were among women aged 25 and over (up 41,000 jobs) while employment fell for men aged 25 to 54 (down 17,000 jobs).

Since last October, when the recession set in, the majority of employment losses have been among men. The decline can easily be attributed to weakness in the manufacturing and resource sectors, traditional bastions of male employment. But one economist believes there is more to the story.

“When a man loses a $30 per hour job and what’s on offer is a temporary or contract job at $15 an hour, he may hold out,” says Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “A woman is much more likely to roll up her sleeves and just take the job.”

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Women have 3 assets that I see as secret weapons in the business world. For the past 30 years or so, women have been encouraged to behave as their male counterparts do so they can succeed and achieve equality. To me, this is backward and counterproductive because they have several valuable skills that businesses need to grow and serve their customers well. Since people are unique, these assets show up differently in each woman. Today I'll share the 3 most important of these abilities with you. My hope is that these skills will be recognized for the powerhouses of strength that they truly are.

Women have strong verbal communication skills. In fact, scientists and psychologists tell us that women speak more than 3 times as many words during a day than men do. Furthermore, our conversations tend to involve responsive listening and focus on the process of relations rather than sharing facts. Women know how to build rapport, understand a person's strengths and weaknesses, and can easily include encouragement in conversation. Businesses need effective communication and team building skills, especially in sales, marketing, and negotiations.

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Anne Keilen and her husband are back to work.On Wednesday, they and their two daughters were helping crews build two Habitat for Humanity homes for families who need affordable housing. The Keilens are one of those families.

The couple has been putting sweat equity into their future home since the end of May. They were surprised to see a couple dozen extra women volunteers on Wednesday — women’s build day.

“Usually we’re struggling trying to get things done. When we pulled up today we couldn’t believe how many people were here,” Anne said. “It’s just amazing.”

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Few women's basketball players are able to even think about what Epiphanny Prince did this past week. That much, Phyllis Mangina knows.

So when Prince decided to leave Rutgers before her senior year to play professionally abroad, Mangina, the women's basketball coach at Seton Hall, was completely aware of how unusual that chosen path is in her sport.

"Not everybody's Epiphanny Prince," Mangina said. "So if a young person like that is going to do it, you know what? Probably she's going to be really successful because she has that kind of ability."

But even though her planned move overseas has been viewed as a watershed decision for female basketball players -- Prince will join a recent stream of male players using Europe to launch their pro careers -- it likely won't spark a grand exodus from the women's collegiate game. Prince's exception is not expected to become the rule, say coaches, former players and women's basketball officials.

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women play a significant role in almost all farming activities, right from sowing of seeds to harvesting of crops and handling of livestock. Their role in managing farming system is very important in contributing to agricultural output and achieving food security. Contribution of rural women in agricultural work is almost 60 per cent. Farming mostly needs jobs like sowing of crops, harvesting, cotton picking, fodder cutting, feeding livestock, milking of herds...

Trends show female GPs could outnumber male ones in under four years, says the Royal College of Physicians.  With women more likely to want flexible working to fit with having a family, the NHS faces challenges which could affect patient care, the college warns.

It says the profession would be failing patients if it ignored such concerns.  The government's chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, said he would work with the profession to ensure women in medicine had "every opportunity" to progress their careers.

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Four women were elected to the parliament of Kuwait, a mere four years after women were granted suffrage in the country.“A victory for Kuwaiti women and…for Kuwaiti democracy”  Four of the 16 female candidates running for Kuwait’s 50-seat parliament were elected Sunday; they are the first women elected since the Persian Gulf nation became a democracy in 1962.

All four women hold doctorates from American universities and are members of Kuwait’s Liberal voting bloc (the country has blocs instead of political parties).  One of the newly elected, Aseel al-Awadhi, a University of Texas-educated political philosophy professor at Kuwait University, was quoted as saying to Agence France-Presse by London paper The Times, “It’s a victory for Kuwaiti women and a victory for Kuwaiti democracy.”

Among the other four elected was Massouma al-Mubarak, who became the country’s first cabinet member in 2005, the same year Kuwaiti women were given the right to vote and run for office. According to Kuwait Times, she is planning to run for the parliament’s deputy speaker seat.

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As many as 600 female participants would be trained in entrepreneurial skills to enable them to start their own businesses, said Shahid Rashid, CEO Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA).

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of ‘Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme in Sindh’ on Thursday at the auditorium of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST).

SMEDA, Ministry of Industries and Production (MOIP), Government of Pakistan and Women Development Department (WDD), Government of Sindh have jointly launched Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme under the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (BBSYDP).

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