Soma Dhar

Oct 17, 2024 | en.prothomalo.com | Soma Dhar |Sanju Purohit |Mosabber Hossain

Opinion Infrastructure serves as the backbone of our social economy by supplying social services like healthcare and education delivered by schools and hospitals and essential services like power, transportation, water and sanitation, ICT, and waste management. It supports 92 per cent of the 169 targets in all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Nadine Puechguirbal, a former senior gender consultant for the UN, claims no gender-neutral infrastructure exists.

Sep 21, 2024 | thedailystar.net | Soma Dhar

Womenomics, coined by Goldman Sachs analyst Kathy Matsui, was introduced as a policy by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2013 to promote gender equality in the workforce and stimulate economic growth in Japan. Womenomics is a smart social policy to motivate women to be smart and create a smart economy that will increase the world's GDP by $12 trillion by 2025.