Europe | Serbia | History

Serbia honours life of war doctor Elsie Inglis

THE British Residence in Belgrade has been named Elsie Inglis House in honour of the pioneering Edinburgh doctor and her work in Serbia during the First World War. Dr Inglis is regarded as a heroine in Serbia for her role in setting up much-needed hospital units at the height of the conflict and helping to save the lives of thousands of patients. Dr Inglis (1864-1917), who studied medicine at Edinburgh University when it was still unusual for women to do so, had set up a women’s hospital in the Capital before the outbreak of war. She defied advice from the British government and wen

Europe | Serbia | Business

Share of women entrepreneurs in Serbian economy small

Source: inSerbia

Female entrepreneurship is one of the great potentials for developing micro-, small and medium enterprises and a potential source of new employment, said the participants of the first Forum on Female Entrepreneurship in Belgrade on Monday. However, women entrepreneurs account for just 26 percent of the total active private enterprises in Serbia, they said. Providing employment to women is a priority for the Serbian government, because as many as 60 percent of them are unemployed, said Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic, who also heads a coordination body for gender equality. “It i