Bridging the Gap - Women´s Empowerment in the Middle East

Research findings of our survey in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates

Our “Bridging the Gap” survey included questionnaires of a total of 7.474 male and female students from leading Universities in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well ...

17. June 2008

The Women´s Forum Asia

The Chinese edition of the renowned Deauville Forum for global meetings

Women without Borders, together with hundreds of Chinese women was invited to co-shape a female platform for civil society and global dialogue. The theme for this first Asian forum was the burning issue ...

06. June 2008

Today it’s About Sheer Survival

Elisabeth Kasbauer, Executive Director of Women without Borders talks with Dr. Sara Roy

Dr. Sara Roy is a professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard and has conducted research on the political, social and economic development of Palestine since 1985. As the daughter of ...

06. June 2008

A Climate of Change

A commentary by Edit Schlaffer

Climate change poses the greatest challenge of the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, greenhouse gasses, the hole in the ozone layer and the Arctic’s melting glaciers are still observed as if from ...

05. June 2008

Unequal Equality (By Ana Tajder)

At first sight, Austria is a country of alpha-women, women who live equality. The Foreign Minister is a woman (Ursula Plassnik); the Majority Leader of the Parliament is a woman (Barbara Prammer).

Everywhere young women are hungry for careers and success, enthusiastically starting a professional path into the big corporations. Women are buying their first apartments, traveling around the world ...

09. May 2008

The Climate of Change

We are all under stress to compete, achieve and be part of the flow. This means that traditions are falling apart – a particular challenge for migrant and religious segments of our societies.

Individual conflicts and societal disharmony create a climate of distrust. How can Muslims and non-Muslims travel these rocky roads together? The Quilliam Foundation has found an answer. They launched ...

09. May 2008

The Other Mothers

A commentary by Edit Schlaffer

Mother’s Day has a bad reputation. It brings back memories of 1939 when Hitler awarded child-bearing women with medals for being heroines of the German nation. Modern women ask not to be honored. ...

15. April 2008

Women without Borders Campaigns for Equal Treatment

Women without Borders is using an advertising campaign to fight for the equal treatment of career women around the world. The advertisements get the message across simply – but surprisingly. Banknotes ...