Emiratweet » Woman http://emiratweet.com For the Emirati by the Emirati Mon, 21 May 2012 20:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Woman CEO of the Year http://emiratweet.com/2010/11/28/woman-ceo-of-the-year/ http://emiratweet.com/2010/11/28/woman-ceo-of-the-year/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:21:37 +0000 Emiratweet http://www.emiratweet.com/?p=4556

Salma Hareb, Chief Executive Officer of Economic Zones World, has been named the ‘Woman CEO of the Year’ at the Women In Leadership (WIL) Forum, a two-day event that ended recently in Abu Dhabi.

The panel of judges who announced the top honour, which is awarded to the most successful woman CEO of a leading company, from any industrial sector, over the last 12 months, cited Hareb for her exceptional leadership qualities, decision making abilities, strategic management skills and inspiring initiatives.

Commenting on the Award, Salma Hareb, Chief Executive Officer, Economic Zones World, said: “I am honoured to receive this recognition. At Economic Zones World we consistently encourage our women executives to take on challenging roles and my personal effort remains to lead by example.. ”

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A French woman who is identified as Marlene has committed the world’s first-known act of burqa rage since she lost her temper with an Emirati woman and ripped off her veil publicly in a store. Because of the outburst of the 63-year-old retired schoolteacher, she was sentenced three years in jail. She lost control when she saw the Emirati woman with the veil who is identified as Shaika, 26- and speaking in English. Marline feels attacked with the whole idea of the burqa saga and since she taught in the Middle East that makes her hates the Islamic Sharia in there.

Marlene stormed up to the Emirati woman demanding her to remove the veil and after her refusal to her demand that French woman tore off her veil after slapping, hitting and biting shaika’s hand. Eventually she shouted “Now I can see your face”. Shaika’s lawyer who came from the United Arab Emirates called it “racist attack”. After the thrashing, Shaika who was a three-year resident of Paris never wants to come back.

 “The February attack came just months before France initiated a nationwide ban on wearing face-covering veils such as burqas in public. The ban won final approval from a high court earlier this month, but is not supposed to be enforced until six months from now”. Although it was legal to wear the veil at the time of the “burqa rage” incident, people now can face fines and jail time for donning the garment.” 
 

Marlene stated that she will argue in court since she should be acquitted of the aggressive behavior since they do not wear burqa in France. She added “I just wanted to pull her burqa off. I know I shouldn’t have gotten angry, but I lost it.”

 @Absology AbdulRahman Arif  We should campaign for our sister, who got scratched and bitten because of her niqab in France. Treat her like a hero!

 

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Gender equality improves as women’s participation in labour force increases and wage gap narrows. The literacy rate for women in the UAE is higher than men in the UAE, said a report released today.

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2010, the labour force participation rate of women has increased from 41 per cent in 2009 to 43 this year while the wage gap narrowed relative to the $40,000 maximum value for men. The UAE remained top Arab country in equality between men and women, lifting its ranking to 103 this year from 112 last year in a survey of 134 countries. The UAE was followed by Kuwait with a ranking of 105, Bahrain (110), Lebanon (116), Qatar (117), Oman (122), Egypt (125) and Saudi Arabia (129).

]]> http://emiratweet.com/2010/10/12/uae-women-top-men-in-literacy/feed/ 2 EmiraTalks 2.0 – Emirateyat: Celebrating International Woman’s Day http://emiratweet.com/2010/02/27/emiratalks-2-0-emirateyat-celebrating-international-womans-day/ http://emiratweet.com/2010/02/27/emiratalks-2-0-emirateyat-celebrating-international-womans-day/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:07:31 +0000 Emiratweet http://emiratweet.com/2010/02/27/emiratalks-2-0-emirateyat-celebrating-international-womans-day/ It’s been so long since the last EmiraTalks1.0 .. Today we come to talk to you about EmiraTalks2.0

March is known for celebration Women, not to forget that the whole world celebrates International Woman’s Day on 8 March of each year. Therefore, we decided to dedicate EMIRATWEET’s activities to this cause. With that we would like to ask you all to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of Emirati women past, present and future with us on Saturday 6 March 2010.


On Saturday 6 March 2010 – 4pm, we will be celebrating our “Emirati version” of Woman’s day.

The Agenda of this day will be as follows:

  1. Reception
  2. Introduction (Welcome + Brief about IWD)
  3. See What Emirati Women Are up to .. (Video)
  4. Success Stories from UAE / EMIRATI WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP – CHALLENGES AND STRENGTHS
  5. Closing Remarks

Speakers (TBA):

  1. Nayla AlKhaja
  2. Amina Taher
  3. Elham AlQasimi
  4. Noura AlKaabi


Our Video Actors (So far):

  1. Aida Al Busaidy
  2. Mariam Safar
  3. Nasreen Al Tamimi
  4. Nuha Safar
  5. Khulood AlAtiyat
  6. Iman AlQassimi

The event will be a mixture of a mini bazaar of Emirati Women Businesses (if you want to participate contact us) + The talk. Please, Don’t forget to RSVP.  Check out the Facebook Group

So excited to see you all, one more thing everyone is welcomed to come its not a women’s only event :) ..

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