Looking at the world picture, professional and corporate success must embrace global activism and advocacy for women.
Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.24.2011
Acid violence is a form of vengeance for other types of social conflicts like disputes over land. In most cases the women, young and adolescent girls and girl children are the victims.
Posted 08.10.2011
Actresses Natalie Portman and Zoe Saldana have partnered with FINCA International, a microfinancing charity, to promote its women's entrepreneurship c...
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Posted 05.25.2011
At a time when the news cycle has nearly forgotten the war in Afghanistan, the former first lady's goal is to put the nation and its women back in the headlines.
Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
Without a dime of donations or leaving home, individuals, small family foundations and companies in the United States are at this very minute financing 112,000 small businesses.
Mary Ellen Iskenderian | Posted 05.25.2011
Microfinance efforts show that the poor are indeed creditworthy, and that women borrowers in particular spend the proceeds from their businesses in ways that have a longer-lasting, more profound impact on the lives of their families.
Shivani Siroya | Posted 05.25.2011
In the right hands, microcredit can be a truly empowering opportunity, enabling hardworking entrepreneurs to become self-sufficient business owners and improve the livelihood of whole communities.
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
The following are parts of a recent speech delivered by the head of the Microcredit Summit, Sam Daley-Harris entitled, "Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption."
Yeardley Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
I love the microfinance approach because instead of being a welfare model, it's a model that puts the recipient at the center of the solution. And in doing so, the victory is a thousand times sweeter.
Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011
As more and more women and girls are given opportunity and respect, there is real possibility for bringing balance back to our world.
Jane D. Wurwand | Posted 11.27.2011