Posted on 09 October 2008
Citi has been included among ’100 Best Companies’ listed by Working Mother magazine recently. It is for the 18th year that the bank has been enrolled by the gender periodical that highlights Citi’s commitment to its employees. Almost 25 per cent among the top earners working at Citi are women. The company has established best [...]
Posted on 09 October 2008
More than 500,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every year in the developing world due to lack of proper care, report Rebecca Seal and Katrina Manson. It is one of the world’s greatest hidden epidemics, but the search for a solution is hopelessly underfunded. On average, every minute of every day a woman somewhere [...]
Posted on 09 October 2008
Rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish and cooking oil, raising the risk of new AIDS infections, UN officials said on Monday. Delegates at a major AIDS conference in Mexico cited the cases of fisherwomen in the Pacific and women in Kenya [...]