To help more women enter the better-paying managerial jobs in the booming maritime logistics hub, two trailblazers-one a highway engineer, the other a supply-chain manager-aim to make their trade institute a model of gender balance for the island nation.
Sri Lankan women who were Tamil combatants a year ago are leaving rehabilitation camps and moving into the work force. Four hundred just arrived at a hostel for workers in a factory that ships clothes to Target and Wal-Mart.
From cultivating paddy fields to starting chicken farms, women in a remote region of Sri Lanka devastated by the Asian tsunami a year ago are using tiny amounts of financing to make extraordinary recoveries.
