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Women In Business Worldwide
The need for more women in business is spreading internationally. While the US is still fighting to introduce more women into big businesses or start their own, Turkey is trying to motivate its own women to consider entrepreneurship.
“A country cannot progress or struggle for democracy without women. Becoming a leader cannot be achieved without women. A bird cannot fly with a single wing, a person cannot run with a single leg,” Şahin said in her opening speech at the Association of Balkan Countries’ first Women Entrepreneurs Council meeting.
Şahin said women’s entrepreneurship was especially discouraged by a lack of capital as they have difficulty in locating resources to finance their businesses.
Women manage 20 percent of the small and medium enterprises in China, the minister said. While the figure is 16 percent for the United States, Turkey has failed to rise above 14 percent despite a number of projects designed to increase women’s entrepreneurship, she added.
Out of 26 million employable women in Turkey, only 5.9 million are in the labor force, according to figures.
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Cindy Hawkins on October 13th, 2011 3:42 am
Moreover, Islamic men have to stop pulling their pre teen daughters out of school, so they can ‘marry’. I have several Islamic adult male students, and they all now live here in the United States. They tell me this practice is still far too tragically common. My husband Ric, a merchant seaman often travels to the Mid East, and he too, claims this happens all the time – in fact it’s a general rule. So I pose a question: (and as a teacher, I have great respect for the centuries long history of the Islamic faith) How can any country thrive and prosper, making the most of its potential, join the world community…if half its citizens are routinely denied an education, and a chance at full citizenship? Entrepreneurship is praiseworthy, and clearly necessary, most particularly in the developing world – I do not doubt it. But oppressive, outdated patriarchal attitudes which keep young girls from becoming affirmed, contributing members must change. They simply must, if those societies are to play a role in the future world to follow.
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