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Expat Daily: Saints Take Super Bowl, Expat Working Women

admin Americans overseas, Culture, Expat Career 2010-02-08

Super Bowl 43: Expat Americans Celebrate

American Expats throughout the world gathered today to celebrate what is often deemed as America’s biggest holiday: Super Bowl. Whether your a fan of the New Orleans Saints or not, you have to give the underdog credit. Credit not only for winning the gaming, but for showcasing the city of New Orleans that is still coping with the damage of hurricane Katrina. “Saints fans hugged, kissed, and spilled onto the streets Sunday as a citywide party erupted in New Orleans after their once woebegone NFL franchise defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl. French Quarter crowds, beefed up by tourists in town for Carnival season and by those wanting to experience the euphoria of a Saints victory, poured onto Bourbon Street to celebrate in a scene that looked more like Fat Tuesday than a Sunday night. The Saints won 31-17 in the franchise’s first appearance in the big game.”

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Women Leadership in Emerging Markets

For expat women who work overseas leadership positions have often been hard to come by. Often just getting a job can be difficult for expat women. Now especially in emerging markets like the Middle East companies can no longer ignore the talent pool of women. “As recently as five years ago, this kind of group would have been pale and male. Today, they were all women — five Arab women (from Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia), one from Turkey, one from Brazil and one from Canada. I’m not pretending that the Pfizer leadership in Dubai is exclusively female. But it says a lot that it is now possible to pull together a critical mass of female executives in what used to be — and is often still thought of as — an exclusively male bastion.”