Empowerment Of Women Helps Globe Grow Healthy

Helping women empower themselves helps the world heal, move on and move forward from the continuing scourge of COVID-19

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod

Women, particularly businesswomen and entrepreneurs must be responsible in empowering themselves towards an “equitable society and common future for all.” Helping women empower themselves helps the world heal, move on and move forward from the continuing scourge of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

These were from Sharjah Business Women Council chairperson Sheikha Hind Bint Majid Al Qasimi and Rwandan Ambassador to the UAE Emmanuel Hategeka who shared their respective opinion pieces on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD) on Monday, (March 8).

In her “Investing ‘Big’ in Women’s Ambitions and Achievements,” Al Qasimi wrote that as businesswomen and entrepreneurs must allocate periodic assessments of their professional lives and decisions, “(they) are not only the guardians of their achievements and those of their female peers; they are responsible for taking them to a level reflective of real, qualitative partnerships (which) should not just be justified by the women-to-men ratio, but by the impact their businesses have on the economy and on community, and whether or not their business mission and outcomes are in service of national interests.”