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Equal pay and work-life balance among biggest challenges for women

Monique villa

What challenges do women face at work? Is it possible to have kids and a successful career? The Thomson Reuters Foundation asked 9,500 women in the G20 countries. DW speaks to the foundation’s CEO, Monique Villa.

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31.10.2015 | 18:02

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How a woman is affected by her environment

Women face many challenges thrown at them by society

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Simone de Beauvoir says: “One is not born a woman, rather becomes one.” Environment has a great impact on the personality of a person and if children are exposed to sex-based segregation or a sex-sensitive environment, they will probably adopt the same behavior. Women Talk Online leader Roheena Sajid writes.

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27.10.2014 | 13:28

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Women’s day special: India

Mercy is all set to pamper herself on Women’s Day

There is a proverb which says “Men build houses, women build homes.” No person will disagree. But today’s women do not just make homes; they walk hand in hand with their male counterparts professionally and also manage their homes and families. Debarati Mukherjee spoke to women from her city and asked them how they were celebrating Women’s Day.

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08.03.2013 | 9:47

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Let us work with respect

This woman has set up a food cart in front of a government office in Lahore- by covering her face she says people will respect her.

 

As the nation mourned the killing of at least six female polio workers in the north-western and southern provinces, the Pakistani government celebrated its National Working Women’s Day on December 22. At least two women escaped target killing in the southern Punjab province a few days later.

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28.12.2012 | 14:11

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