Women are the last group in the world to enjoy full democracy.
This is what Noble Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi believes due to the discrimination women face in “all countries without exception”.
 The Iranian human rights activist spoke at the Women in Education and Employment conference organised by the European Training Foundation (ETF), an agency of the European Union, in 2006.
ETF contributes to the development of education and training in the EU’s partner countries. Promoting gender equality is high on its agenda.
The International Women’s Day on March 8th is coming up. It will be its 100th anniversary next year!
ETF is organising an international conference on the vision of women in education and employment in Turin on 7-8 March 2010.
 We are preparing for the event and ETF would like to engage in a dialogue online with female bloggers and women who write about gender issues on the web.
It’s so exciting! I will be helping ETF to identify these women and manage the dialogue.
We will discuss gender equality, school-to-work transition, female economic participation, women entrepreneurs…. and much more.
The conclusions from the dialogue will be discussed at a workshop to be held during the conference and will be presented to international policy makers.
If you are based in MENA, former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Russia, Caucasus or Central Asia and you blog/write about women’s issues, please get in touch with me through this site or direct-message me at @XCulture.
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I am very interested in being involved in this.
My main interests are social and cultural issues in the Middle East as well as the things around me.
My main focus when writing about women’s issues is education and employment. Arab women especially are such an untapped market of talent and leaving the social benefits aside, economically they are and can be a force.
Would love to be a part of this.
Thanks for your interest, Sara. I really like your blog. Please send me your email or DM me so I can send you more info about the project and the next steps.
Hi
My blog is in Arabic but I write about local and Arab women issues/concerns from time to time and I recently attended a meeting in Tunisia organized by HARPAS/UNDP to contribute in preparing a Training Manual entitled “Women Rights in Challenging HIV/AIDS” which will be distributed (once finalized) to all NGOs in the Arab World.
If the conference is open also for bloggers blogging in Arabic than I will be interested to attend.
Thanks.
I’m working on the impact of sociocultural values at the workplace and try to make understand that feminine values should be recognized as being a real potential and asset for management cascading on performance of a company. It is a subject of good commun sens. Our economic structures are still run by a traditional masculine value system. Generally speaking, women access feminine values naturally but very quickly after entering professional life, they leave this aspect at the door of the company and do their job on the masculine value basis. Obviously, change cannot come if women don’t value this potential. I’d be very interested to get involved in the debate.
Many thanks for getting in touch, Suad. We are interested in women blogging in Arabic . Please send me your email through this blog or DM me at @XCulture.
Gabriele, thanks for your comment. Please send me your email
Hi Silvia
This is my email:
salkhawaja at gmail dot com
Thnak you.
Hello dear friends
We are working with young women employment and education issues through our resource centers. We are interested to join this event. Could you send us application form. Thanks a lot, Gulnara
Many thanks for your interest, Gulnara. Please send me your email address and I’ll get in touch with more details
I am an Egyptian blogger, I write in both English and Arabic. I am interested in women rights and cultural minorities’ rights.
In addition to that I am a researcher and co founder of a feminist NGO “Nazra for feminist studies”. I love to participate
my blogs are http://www.taboohat.blogspot.com and http://www.atbrownies.blogspot.com
This sounds interesting. Are you only interested in women bloggers from the Arabic nations? Women in education and employment have problems worldwide. I am having huge problems as a educated woman trying to return to the workplace with outdated experience and technical skills.
I am looking for women in the EU Partner Countries (MENA, former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia). Thanks for your comments, Fatma and Emerging Writer. You can join our discussion on ning at http://womenandwork.ning.com/
Would love to hear from you.
Dear Silvia,
thank you for your attention to our organization and its acitvity. We are locating in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Our organization SABR is dealing with socio-economic development of population in Samarkand region. We support women via microcredit disbursement and social empowerment. WE have several directions of activity: training, psychological counseling, hot telephone line. There is also a centre of social adaptation operating at SABR for young girls and women in the framework of achool-to-work transition. we support equal access to education and female economic participation as well through our program.
Hope I’m not very late as I was very busy dealing with project work.
very best regards,
Mavluda Shirinova