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A woman‘s work is needed in Lebanon

by Executive Staff

The Lebanese business community gathered recently at one ofBeirut’s posher eateries to celebrate the signing of a tradememorandum between the Beirut and Paris Chambers ofCommerce. However, it was neither the place nor the occasionthat was remarkable, but the fact that among the 100 or soguests, there were only a handful of women. Studies conducted by the Gender Entrepreneurial Marketprogram (GEM) show that female labor participation inLebanon—which increased from 12.5% in the 1960s to 32.3%% in2000—was estimated in 2003, at 21.7% of the total laborforce. Tapping into this unexploited labor market, theLebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB), anon-partisan, non-profit organization, aims to empower womenin the economic environment by providing a structured forumfor women in order to achieve their entrepreneurial potential. Filling the vacuum The NGO was the result of a happy coincidence when the 12founding members met by chance at a conference forbusinesswomen in Tunisia in May 2005. “The conferencebrought

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