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Image via: www.business-humanrights.org Gender Inequality is a huge challenge to women, society, and national development today. Although societies have evolved, day in day out, there are manifestations of the gap between men and women. A study by UN Population Fund (UNFPA) reveals that Gender Inequality remains an insurmountable obstacle for many women’ Gender-based discrimination still thrives because of deep-rooted systems that have become difficult to tackle as they have been long fuelled at the lowest levels; the home, with the unequal treatment given to boys and girl, which has advanced into schools, where girls are not given the same opportunities for development as boys; into workplaces because of huge pay gaps; and at a national level because although progress has been made when it comes to women and the significant role they play, society has still not warmed up to the prospects of having more women in management and leadership positions. "Tackle G...

Photo: gregcalvertdesign.com Oh crap! Hello days of feeling blue so that just chocolate is not enough and you have to combine it with James Brown’s ‘Why Do You Do Me’, and a hell ’a junk food.   Hello to the days when you, on tenterhooks, go through the contacts of your phone expectantly only to be disappointed at the realization that you don’t really have a ‘friend friend’, or a go-to person. Does this sound familiar? There comes a time in every person’s life when ‘self’ doesn’t quite cut it. Even the I-like-being-alone-thank-you people wish there was someone out there to snort with.  People with strong characters sometimes feel the need to hide how they really feel. They’d rather put up a good front, than come off as weak and helpless, even to those they consider to be friends. But go-to people are not necessarily friends. They are people (again!) who you can talk to, lay out all your cards on the table and not feel vulnerable, judged or choked. ...