In this issue

Women without Rights

While we are preoccupied with securing our democratic right to hold provincial council elections - so we can sooner reset the economy, fast-track the debt-restructuring process, and decisively overhaul the ineffectual public while restoring law and order and governance) - blessed by Koalemos forever and ever, amen, and touched by his divine hands, we are perpetually comatose to far more vital matters. For instance:
Sri Lankan women put up with tremendous injustices. They have fewer rights than men. They have fewer rights than women in Rwanda, Liberia, Tanzania, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Angola,
Congo (Dem. Rep.), Ethiopia, Uganda, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, and more than 126 other countries, the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law (WBL) Index 2022 reveals.
The annual index analyses legal and regulatory differences between women and men in 190 countries across eight economic indicators: mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets, and pensions. Sri Lanka has an overall score of 67.5, which means a Sri Lankan woman has less than 70% of a man's rights.
She stands on level ground in mobility and marriage, but in the workplace, she has 75% of the rights of a man. She does not have three-quarters of a man's rights around pay and half the rights to a pension. She finds only limitations and restrictions to building a career after having children because laws deny her 80% of the parental rights available to men. She has fewer rights than a man to hold assets (80/100) or start a business (75/100), the WBL Index shows, and this is just the tip of the iceberg (and mind, the wisdom is in the simile!).

Echelon Magazine Description:

Intelligent Storytelling

The one thing that will define the Echelon magazine will be the quality of the storytelling. Echelon,published monthly, will cover in depth Sri Lanka’s most successful businesses, examine their winning strategiesand profile their leaders in immersive stories. Great stories are also never limited to words, and our approach includes rich photography, bold graphics and leading edge design which together will make for a compelling read.

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