Maya Bacha, Meryal Khayat award winners of Femme Francophone Entrepreneur 

Maya Bacha and Meryal Khayat won the Femme Francophone Entrepreneur Award 2018 organised by the Agence Universitaire Francophone (AUF), Berytech, L’Orient Le Jour and Le Commerce du Levant magazine at the Innovation and Sport Campus, USJ. Each winner received 10,000 euros, noting that contestants were 90 women in total, five of whom were short listed for the finals. To recall, Bacha is the founder of ‘Sidelick’ for pet care, and Khayat started ‘Kulluna’ fund which embraces various made in Lebanon products and targets mainly the Lebanese expatriates. On the participation of women in the labor market, Caroline Fattal, board member at Fattal and founder of ‘Stand for Women’ association, voiced regret over the low female representation (23%) in the labor market, and the meagre percentage (4%) in top leadership positions in Lebanon and the region, while they make more than half of university graduates. (L’Orient Le Jour, September 28, 2018)

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