Refugee Women Business Mentors: New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment

Evaluating and giving feedback to mentors: new evidence-based approaches.

A comprehensive mentoring program includes a variety of components. One of the most important is the ongoing assessment of and feedback to mentors. Scholars need strong active mentors who have the expertise, disposition, motivation, skills, and the ability to accept feedback and to adjust their mentoring style. Assessing the effectiveness of a given mentor is no easy task. Variability in learni...

Barriers to work for refugee women

Introduction This morning I will be speaking on the topic of Barriers to Work for refugee Women. As the Specialist Migrant Place for the Service for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors I am responsible for assisting ma women to find employment. This is not an easy task and is often fraught with frustration because, statistically, wom refugee backgrounds have the highest...

Economic Empowerment of Women

Health care of refugee women.

BACKGROUND Women refugees have endured major discrimination and poverty in their countries of origin or countries of displacement. This has had a major impact on their physical and psychological health. The experience of resettlement places a further burden on their health. OBJECTIVE This article aims to provide a simple approach to the health assessment and management of women refugees, taki...

Empowerment of Pregnant Women

Introduction: Empowerment during pregnancy is defined as a sense of self- fulfillment and increased independence, promotion of interaction with individuals and environment leading to an increase in the spontaneous psychological energy to achieve successful pregnancy and childbirth. Education during pregnancy empowers women for better adjustment confronting physical and emotional changes assoc...