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Women-owned businesses have more operational capacity and information gap. [iStockphoto]

“Women are like flowers; they should be treated gently, kindly and with affection.”

We may never know what Imam Ali had in mind when he said those words, but this has become the way women are treated in almost all sectors - giving birth to the not-so-suitable reference of flower girls.

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