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Baku hosts She Congress 2019

6 March 2019 14:03 (UTC+04:00)
Baku hosts She Congress 2019

By Mirsaid Ibrahimzade

The third conference entitled “She Congress 2019” (“Smart. Happy. Elegant.”), dedicated to women's leadership and entrepreneurship was held in Baku on March 6, Trend reports.

Chairperson of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs Hijran Huseynova stated that Azerbaijan's First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva’s activity demonstrates the high level of activity achieved by Azerbaijani women.

“Earlier, women appealed to the State Committee only with social problems in Azerbaijan,” she said. “Presently, the appeals are more connected with the social activity of women.”

"There has been such a stereotype for a long time that Azerbaijani women must be only housewives and good mothers,” Huseynova said. “But an Azerbaijani woman may be active in the social and political sphere. Today Azerbaijani women hold senior positions in state organizations.”

“Women in the 21st century face new challenges,” she said. "Today, Azerbaijani women face new tasks. First and foremost, a woman must be highly educated, resistant to the competition in the labor market."

Huseynova stressed that women take advantage of all the opportunities created by the state, feel the care of the state.

“Women are actively involved in public and political life,” she added. “Women actively participate in the work of municipal bodies.”

“Thirty percent of all entrepreneurs in the country account for female entrepreneurs,” Huseynova said. "If we take into account the fact that Azerbaijan is a young country, then such progress in a short period of time is worthy approval."

Further, chairman of the board of the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) of Azerbaijan Orkhan Mammadov said that the scale and scope of measures for the development of women’s entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan will be expanded.

The head of the Agency said that in order to develop women's entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan, it is planned to create special incubators for women's business. They will facilitate the increase in the number of women among small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.

Mammadov noted that the development of entrepreneurship, in particular, small and medium-sized businesses, which is the leading force of the country's economy, is one of the priorities of the policy pursued under the leadership of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

“As in other areas, Azerbaijani women play an important role in the development of entrepreneurship, actively engaging in business activities. The growth of economic initiative of women, their wide representation in small and medium business is extremely important from the point of view of socio-economic development and employment,” he stressed.

Moreover, the head of the Agency added that approximately twenty percent of individual entrepreneurship in the country is accounted for the women.

“One of the activities of SMEs is the development of female entrepreneurship. The scale and scope of measures for the development of women's entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan will be expanded," he said.

“In addition, thanks to the development of incentive mechanisms providing education and consulting services, lending and other benefits to women entrepreneurs, the possibilities for realizing women's economic initiative will be significantly expanded. In preparing projects and programs in this direction, the focus will be on female employment, in particular, in the regions, identifying more promising areas of female employment,” Mammadov added.

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