Latifa Begum looked confident with a seemingly ever-lasting smile on her face when she was frisking well-dressed and beauty-conscious women with an intelligent electronic device at the entrance to a plush beauty salon in the capital.
The invariant smile bears the testimony to the professionalism of the 32-year-old security guard who was abandoned by her husband [...]

Speakers at a roundtable in the city Tuesday stressed the need for better access of women SMEs (small and medium entrepreneurs) to finance to create more job opportunities at the grassroots level and thus reduce poverty in the society.
At the same time, the meeting underscored the need for development of skills and proper training of [...]

MICROLOANS were invented to help the poorest of the poor help themselves. Now major banks and pension funds are getting into the business, as they discover that the interest paid by the poor can produce high returns. Is it aid or exploitation?
Muhammad Yunus is the banker of the poor. He took a risk and transformed [...]

When two entrepreneurs examined the limited transportation options available to people living in U.S. cities, they not only saw a business opportunity, but also imagined a way to help the environment. Together they founded Zipcar Inc., the world’s largest car-sharing business.
Halfway around the world in Morocco, another entrepreneur saw an opening in the marketplace and [...]

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 practices [...]

I recently wrote a short piece on the economic impact of discrimination against women in Star Business. Though my esteemed readers usually don’t expect me to write on non-business related issues, somehow this piece arrested the attention of quite a few concerned.
From the feedback that I have received, it seems that the situation is much [...]

Mongolia has appointed Nasreen Fatema Awal as its Honorary Consul for Bangladesh, a Foreign Ministry official said, reports bdnews24.com.

Nasreen Fatema Awal is president of Women Entrepreneurs’ Association of Bangladesh (WEAB) and the only woman CIP (Commercially Important Person) in the country.

In order to facilitate increased participation in the economy by women entrepreneurs, Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI), in association with The Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), formed a national committee for developing the first women’s national business agenda at a city hotel Saturday.
The national committee is comprised of 35 members from [...]

Nearly 500,000 people - mostly women - can put more food on the table, educate their children, and even save enough to lease or buy agricultural land, thanks to an innovative livestock project in Bangladesh.
About half the country’s population, roughly 65 million people, live below the poverty line. Poverty is more common in rural than [...]

A daylong orientation workshop on ‘Women Empowerment’ was held at the training room of Tushbhander Federation Office of Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) in Kaliganj Upazila of Lalmonirhat.
Under the assistances of Bangladesh NGO Foundation, Tushbhander Federation Office of RDRS organised the workshop recently that stressed the need of taking joint efforts to encourage involvement of women [...]

THE contribution of women to the economy is significant but remains beyond the spell of evaluation. It is so, despite the fact that they work at home for sixteen to twenty hours a day. They prepare food for all members of the family, maintain different equipment including those used in kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and drawing [...]

A two-day training programme on ‘PC and Internet for Women Entrepreneurs’ was held at the Knowledge Centre organised by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) under its Women Entrepreneurs and Export Development (WEED) Standing Committee (SIC). The objectives of the programme was to provide first hand knowledge on PC and Internet to small [...]

The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) under its Women Entrepreneurs and Export Development (WEED) Standing Committee organised a two-day training on personal computer (PC) and Internet for women entrepreneurs.
The objective of the training was to provide first hand knowledge on PC and Internet to small and micro level women entrepreneurs so that by [...]

The country’s local sanitary napkin industry has grown fast in the past 15 years, as consumers are increasingly getting locally made products at competitive prices.
Industry experts estimate the existing market size of the product at around Tk 25 crore, with around 20 local brands available in the market now.
The local brands [...]

Household activities by women should be recognised and its economic values should be calculated to acknowledge their contribution to the national economy, said the speakers at a discussion yesterday.
The discussion was organised by Work for Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust at its office in the city to share the findings of a study conducted on 740 [...]