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Entrepreneurship for Rural Women, Brought to You by Coca Cola

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 04.18.2013 | Impact
Read More: Coca-Cola, Women Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Women Empowerment, Kay Koplovitz, Slingshot, Clean Water, Women in the World Conference, Dean Kamen, Women in Business, Mutar Kent, Water, Impact News
Kay Koplovitz

Women living in rural areas of Africa and India are getting a boost into entrepreneurship by Coca Cola's Mutar Kent teaming up with inventor Dean Kamen to distribute clean water distillers.

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Whose Body Is It Anyway?

Deborah King | Posted 05.19.2012 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Ohio Heartbeat Bill, Contraception, Women in the World Conference, Women's Rights, Politics News
Deborah King

Freedom is hard. It's always required a revolution, and many battles. Let's not fall asleep and sink into a past way of thinking, of living. Let's dig deep within, root out old beliefs that no longer serve, and do what we must to be in charge of our own bodies, our own lives.

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Helping The Next Generation Find Their 'Sputnik Moment'

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 05.19.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women, Women's Issues, Science, Women in the World Conference, Wall Street Journal, Science Education, Intel, Michio Kaku, Sputnik, Fifty News, Fifty, Physics, Women in Science, Stephen Hawking, Education Reform, Parents, Fifty News
Barbara Hannah Grufferman

It's imperative that parents, teachers, government and business leaders forge public-private partnerships to help young girls and boys find their competitive streak, patriotism, personal pride, and desire to think creatively.

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Women in the World Summit 2012

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.16.2012 | Impact
Read More: Women in the World Foundation, Women in the World, Women in the World Conference, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

The Women in the World Third Annual Summit, which employs the tagline "Stories + Solutions," is to present an amalgam of visibly powerful women, emerging leaders, and courageous activists striving to make a difference.

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Dowd, Hillary and the Feminist Champion

Ben Zweifach | Posted 05.15.2012 | Media
Read More: Abortion, Anti-Abortion, Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Abortion Rights, Barack Obama, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Women in the World Conference, Media News
Ben Zweifach

Maureen Dowd took to her column yesterday to celebrate Hillary Clinton's speech at the Women in the World Summit, advocating a Hillary 2016 "glide path" to the presidency. This is a columnist who has built her career on attacking Hillary and mocking her legitimacy as a symbol of feminism.

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Are Female Voters to Blame for the Failure of Female Candidates?

Keli Goff | Posted 05.12.2012 | Politics
Read More: Hillary Clinton, Women in the World Conference, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Female Voters, Female Candidates for Office, Female Candidates, Women Candidates, Women in Politics, Women Candidates for Office, Women Politicians, Women in Office, Female Politicians, Politics News
Keli Goff

Our country's inability to elect women to the highest or even second-highest office in the land begs the uncomfortable question: if women are the majority of American voters, then does the blame for the dearth of women leaders lie with women voters?

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Katherine Bindley

10 Takeaways From The Women In The World Summit

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 03.12.2012 | Women
Read More: Women in the World, Women in Politics, Women in the World 2012, Women's Rights, Women in the World Conference, Women in Business, Women's Issues, Women in the World Summit, Women News

Meryl Streep may have put it best when she said that being at the 3rd annual Women in the World summit in New York City was like being plugged in to a...

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Are Women Mad Enough to Get the Job Done?

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 05.11.2012 | Women
Read More: Women's Empowerment, Sexual Violence, Women, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Unemployment, Women-in-the-World-2012, Girl Power, The Best of Everything After 50, Barbara Hannah Grufferman, Women and Politics, Women in the World Conference, Women Power, Feminism, Women News
Barbara Hannah Grufferman

Something is definitely changing in America, and my heart tells me there is no going back. We are angry and ready for action. But are we angry enough?

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Media Figures Featured In The Daily Beast's '150 Fearless Women' List

Posted 03.06.2012 | Media
Read More: Lara Logan, Oprah Winfrey, Daily Beast 150 Fearless Women, Daily Beast, Daily Beast Women, Women in the World Conference, Slidepollajax, 150 Fearless Women List, Women in the World Summit, Media News

The Daily Beast announced its "150 Fearless Women" list ahead of the news organization's annual Women in the World summit. The summit brings together ...

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Don't Know Melanne Verveer? Why you Should

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Egypt, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Women's History Month, Children, Goldman Sachs 10, Tahirih Justice Center, Women in the World Conference, 10x10, Women's Empowerment, Plan USA, Girl Effect, The Daily Beast, Women, Polaris Project, Joint Women's Leadership Symposium, President Barack Obama, Growing Up Global, Room to Read, Rebecca Project, Global Giving, Sea Service Leadership Association, Facebook, Girl UP, Japan, Haiti, Women for Women International, Girls, Melanne Verveer, Girl Scouts, Armed Services, Three Cups of Tea, Hillary Clinton, 000 Women, Girls Inc., U.S. State Department, Impact News
Homa Sabet Tavangar

Women stand at the center of every type of dramatic change occurring in the world today: whether it's coordinating relief in Japan, consolidating democracy in Egypt or running Facebook.

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The World Bank's Gaming Play

Dev Aujla | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Jane McGonigal, Social Change, Developing Countries, Africa, Social Networking, Social Networking Sites, World Bank, Women in the World Conference, The Daily Beast, Video Games, Evoke, Business News
Dev Aujla

A few weeks ago, the World Bank Institute launched a social network-based game called Evoke. In short, it's a ten-week crash course in changing the world.

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A Report from Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit - Part 1

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Vital Voices, Leymah Gbowee, Rare, Human Slavery, Goldman Sachs 10, Bank of America, Liberia, Sex Trafficking, Women in the World Conference, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marie Brenner, Diane Sawyer, Frances Townsend, Campbell Brown, Madeleine Albright, Human Trafficking, Luis CdeBaca, 000 Women, Christiane Amanpour, Exxonmobil, The Daily Beast, Denis Mukwege, Rape in the Congo, Sexual Violence, Michelle Obama, Kiran Bedi, Tina Brown, Seven, Conrad Hilton Foundation, Archie Panjabi, Hp, Women in Afghanistand and Pakistan, Fatima Bhutto, Erica Jong, Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters, Lesley Stahl, Julie Taymor, Hillary Clinton, Gayle Lemmon, Rape as a Weapon of War, World News
Marcia G. Yerman

At the Daily Beast's "Women in the World" conference last weekend the theme repeated and over was that "women's rights may exist on the books and in the law, but not on the street."

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