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This magazine has highlighted the
importance of empowering women -
whether at home, school, university,
workplace and in politics - at regular
intervals during our first six years of Real leaders do exist
existence. For our main feature this
issue, we’re looking at the impact a
small change in everyone’s life can
start to have a massive effect on fifty
percent of the global population.
Simply by treating women as you
would do men can affect more media trolling, increasing paparazzi
than those involved in that single intrusion, gossip columns and the
interaction, but starts to empower a ubiquitous ‘clickbait’, females of
whole society. all ages are facing even greater
levels of abuse. From politicians
As an organisation with an
to journalists, businesswomen to
abundance of women in our team
young schoolgirls - perhaps even
compared to many other business
the women in your family - all face
magazines, we are proud of this
rising levels of serious harm to their
fact. With an Editor-in-Chief who has
mental and physical health via their
been recognised as ‘best woman
smartphone or computer.
entrepreneur in MENA’, our focus
has always been on supporting So at Middle East Business
girls and women so that they are magazine we are taking a top-level
able to find their feet, whether that look at how society treats women,
is in education, business, sport, art, especially in the traditionally male-
technology or in more traditional dominated areas of politics and
female roles. business.
But it would be remiss of us not to
Can women change politics?
mention how times have changed.
Unfortunately, we are living through ‘They are us.’ These are the words
very unsettling times. In the past of a female leader that acted as an
decade, with the growth of social important balm, helping to soothe a

Jacinda Ardern New Zealanders Prime Minister visits members of the Muslim community
at the Phillipstown Community Centre, Photo by: Kirk Hargreaves.
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