Variety Malaysia: Stagnation of female labour participation. 女性劳动力停滞夏伟文(Har Wai Mun) & 赵梅伊(Tiew Mei Yi) (17th Feb 2014) In July 2010, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is created.
This is another milestone in current trend to empower women for gender equality. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote women’s rights are aplenty in both developed and developing countries including Malaysia. However, are women and men equal? Can women and men have equal role in the economy? Statistics and Trends Various data on Malaysia and international employment are collected from World Bank’s database. Labor participation In term of labor participation rate in Malaysia, female rate is lower than male rate since 1990 (earliest data available date, see Figure 1). We selected 22 countries randomly (and because of data availability) to do international comparative study.
Figure 1: Malaysia's Labor Participation Rate (Data source: World Bank database) Table 2: Top & Bottom States Education. Malaysia - Employee Survey 2007. Entrepreneurial environments and growth: evidence from Malaysia GEM data. FAQs / About social enterprise / About. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FAQs 1.
What are social enterprises? 2. What sorts of social enterprise already exist? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 1. A social enterprise is a business that trades for a social and/or environmental purpose. Social enterprises come in many shapes and sizes from large national and international businesses to small community based enterprises (see question 2). Are businesses that aim to generate their income by selling goods and services, rather than through grants and donationsAre set up to specifically make a differenceReinvest the profits they make in their social mission If you meet or aim to meet these criteria and you have these commitments expressed clearly in your governing documents then you are very probably a social enterprise. Read the short guide - Social Enterprise Explained - to find out more. According to Social Enterprise UK, social enterprises should: Legal structures for social enterprises at a glance. WCBC: Social Enterprise Toolkit.
The Social Economy Project, in partnership with Liverpool Plus, produced a step-by-step guide to starting and running a social enterprise, which is available free of charge to community organisations in Wrexham.
The Manual for Developing Social Enterprises is available to download. This manual is intended as a guide for those wishing to set up or develop social enterprises and can be used independently or with the assistance of a Community Development Officer or Business Counsellor. The different sections can be used independently of the manual for those looking for guidance on a specific issue. Social Enterprise Toolkit Introduction The document is available to download in the following format: Social Enterprise Toolkit Introduction - PDF format 252Kb back to the top of page Module 1 - The Idea These documents are available to download in the following format: Generating Ideas - PDF format 57Kb Is It feasible?
Planning and Presenting the Business Proposal - PDF format 57Kb Module 5 - Funding. Literature Review - Updated. The definition of mobile learning has been evolving through the stages, and is viewed from different perspectives by different people.
In early stage, mobile learning was focused on technology, mainly the delivery function of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. (MoLoNET, 2007) Other researchers characterize mobile learning as an extension of e-learning. M-learning is defined as a form of e-learning, which can take place anytime, anywhere with the help of a mobile communication device such as a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), iPod or any such small portable device(Kadirire, 2009). Frameworks have also been set up to describe mobile learning, among which socio-cultural perspective is paid a lot of attention.
Jade Reference: Hsu, Y.C. Kadirire, J. (2009). Kearney, M. KELLER, J. (2011). Keskin, N. Koole, M.L. (2009) ‘A model for framing mobile learning’, in Empowering learners and educators with mobile learning, ed M. Rossing, J.P. ResearchGuide_NSFGK12. New Tab.