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Leila Velez, CEO, Beleza Natural , and Women’s Forum Rising Talent Alumni. Leila Velez will speak at the Women's Forum Brazil 2013 on "Learning to be competitive in a globally winning wa...

Ever since I’ve started writing about Finances for women, the first question I keep asking to myself was: “Why only for women? Isn’t it the same thing as talking about Finances for men?” 

by Theo Sowa, CEO of the African Women's Development Fund and member of the Program Committee of the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society. The Women’s Forum is Europe's leading forum for women's voices on social and political issues.

The day before the Women's Forum Global Meeting 2013 opened last October, a young girl from Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai, was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus.

Based on the great success of last year’s inaugural Edition in Brazil, the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society will organize a second Edition of the Women’s Forum Brazil, 17-18 June 2013, at the Grand Hyatt São Paulo.

BRUSSELS — Viviane Reding, the European Union justice commissioner, is expected to renew a bid on Wednesday to win approval for a law pushing large companies to have at least 40 percent of their board seats held by women....