Since we launched Women in Business channel on Strategiy.com I keep on thinking what door exactly did we open to the female online audience? Let me look around my desk for one minute. The colleague seating next to me is a woman. The one calling me is a woman. That makes us already the three of us working: Western and Arabic ladies.
No business portal have focused yet into professional women in the region. Strategiy.com hopes you will enjoy this one.
The region is changing quickly and so are the women and their place in the professional world. Just read the news section on Strategiy.com and you will see that more and more women are appointed to managerial positions. One of the most conservative countries in the region has been entitled as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in the world. She also adressed a mixed audience last year at an economic forum and shared her vision for her country where "any Saudi citizen, irrespective of gender" could do any job. Read about Lubna