BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Women fishers play an important role in supporting the coastal economy. However, the productivity of women fishers is still relatively low due to limited business capital, production facilities, and  sustainable institutional support. Productive waqf as an Islamic financial instrument is considered strategic because it can provide access to interest-free capital, is in line with maqashid sharia and blue economy prin…

Reference · Wikidata

scholarly article published on 19 June 2018

Book · DOAB

Women’s economic empowerment has improved rapidly in the last century. Today, many women are not just fully engaged in the workplace; some lead international organisations, corporations and countries. But gender gaps, still prevalent in the European Union and other regions, are costly and imply foregone opportunities not only for women individually, but also for companies that do not fully leverage female talent, an…

Full text · Open Library

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers co…

Image · DPLA