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The Business Woman magazine and it's website, Inspiringwomen,  provides business, financial and personal education,  inspiration and motivation for women across South Africa and facilitates opportunities for them to network, learn and be inspired by role models, mentorship and by each other. Inspiringwomen provides you with a site that is rich in useful content in the form of articles, job opportunities, reviews, recommendations, event listings and more. We will also in... Read more...

The Businesswoman magazine

  • Is supported, and received by members of 21 women's associations
  • Is read by no less than 70 000 corporate and business women
  • Is the only magazine of it's kind on the African continent

The Businesswoman and Inspiringwomen is privileged to have a plethora of regular and talented writers who cover their specific field of endeavour. Just some of those are:

The Businesswoman's Network

Business networking is an increasingly popular concept in South Africa. Business networking is a process whereby all types of business people, from local entrepreneurs to employees of large corporations meet in an informal fashion to exchange ideas, make new contacts and maintain long established relationships.

 

Khungeka Njobe

Khungeka Njobe is CSIR’s Group Executive: R&D Outcomes and Strategic Human Capital Development. Her portfolio spans activities within R&D outcomes (intellectual property management and commercialisation; technology transfer for social impact); human capital development and human resources; strategic research partnership and alliances; communication; stakeholder management; and parliamentary liaison – quite a list for one person.
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You need weight loss advice - Myth 1

It's easier than you think to follow weight loss advice and have a less healthy mind and body than before you started. Here’s why!

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Words and Promises… Ask Father Xmas for a new one…

Each year this time, festive season madness prevails… frantic pressure to meet budgets, close books, collect outstanding debts and get our house in order ready for next year. Getting our house in order is probably the real challenge.
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Sexual Harassment

In terms of our Constitution everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law. This includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms.  No person may unfairly discriminate against you or anyone else based on race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and or birth.  These rights must also be enforced in your place of work.

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Financial Freedom is a choice, not just a stroke of luck

Money. Love it or hate it, but we can’t do without it, and the 2009 Financial Freedom Abundance Diary reveals that it’s our perceptions about money, and the plans we put in place to make it grow, that determine where our wealth really begins and ends.

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GET (Gender Empowerment Technology)

Why is it that we are still talking about Gender Empowerment in this day and age?

The simple answer?
1. Because the representation of women at higher levels in organizations is abysmal.

The complex answer?
1. Women have a long road ahead in terms of self liberation.
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Small Businesses

Government has once again recognised the vital role that small businesses play in stimulating the economy, job creation, poverty alleviation and general development. Accordingly considerable efforts have been made to improve the economic environment for small businesses.

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Business networking

It is critical in business or in your profession to build relationships, build a network or community, and have support for your goals. It is important to have resources to help avoid isolation, make connections, brainstorm ideas, and get the joy of helping others.
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Sizzling Summer Styles

"Summer time and the living is easy" so the song goes . . . Why is it that the minute temperatures rise, corporate and business women in South Africa dress more casual? Maybe the thought that the holidays are nearer makes us more relaxed in appearance. Work doesn't stop in the summer months - why should your professional image?

Ending Violence Against Women

16 Days of Activism on Violence Against Women

Every year, from the 25th of November till the 10th of December a global campaign to end violence against women kicks off. In South Africa, civil society organisations and government increase awareness raising efforts to highlight the huge problem of domestic violence, sexual violence and sexual harassment.

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Economic Overview



State of the economy as we face 2009 As we complete 2008, and contemplate 2009, economic and financial data is a mixture of bad news (slowing growth, eroding corporate earnings, struggling equity prices, falling house prices, declining employment) and good news (falling petrol prices, falling i Read more...