One of the Internet’s most exciting potentials is as a great equalizer, be that in politics, the arts or as a means to give women around the world a...

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Joy Marini, Director, Worldwide Corporate Contributions at Johnson & Johnson and her teenage daughter Kendall have signed on to Catapult this holiday season. You can join their team to support women and girls globally or start a team of your own.

Holding local government to account is one of the most important tools people have to end their own hunger and poverty. But in most of the developing world, this is just a dream.

Right now I'm packing my bags to head to the other side of the world in Sri Lanka. Just like I've done before in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Burkina Faso, I'm living side by side with just one of the many millions of women around the world that manage to survive on a $1 a day.

Women like Djessi, who live in very poor, very rural areas, face an often overwhelming set of challenges. Because their savings and credit needs tend to be small and irregular, formal-sector banks can't afford to provide them with financial services.

Ruth DeGolia quickly realized that "the best way to get a dollar to a kid is to put the dollar in the hands of a mom." And those mothers were talented weavers and sewers who just didn't have a large enough of a market to sell their handmade clothes, scarves and accessories.

Project GRACE started in 2009 and provides small loans in the form of poultry and livestock to its participants who work together as well as encourage others to get tested for HIV at Bishop Asili, their local hospital.

The oppression of women and girls used to be a fringe issue. This week at the U.N., the 60-year-old institution has taken the health and human rights of women and girls to the center of the conversation.

The issue of child marriage and the work of "Girls Not Brides" -- announced yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative -- highlight the challenges ahead for gender advancement.

When asked about her personal and professional inspirations, Gretchen Steidle Wallace names neither an A-list celebrity nor a political figure but, ra...

Here's another side to Microsoft that you might not have heard as much about: the Microsoft commitment to education and empowerment for disadvantaged high school girls living in Kenya.