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Article: Women's roles in the creative economy.(Column)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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All eyes these days are on Michelle Obama as she continues to shape her role as First Lady in the White House.
One area of focus that is emerging is the important role of women in the new creative economy, and the balancing of work and home life. The timing is right as finding solutions to these issues, and removing barriers to the full and equal social and economic participation of women in today's global innovation economy is critical to our nation's success ... indeed, every nation in the world.
Progress is being made. This spring, for example, the King of Saudi Arabia dismissed his chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the ...