Womens Education

Women's Economic Empowerment Starts With Education

Patricia McGuire | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Economic Empowerment, Violence Against Women Act, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Women's Colleges, DREAM Act, Women's Education, Women's Progress, DC News
Patricia McGuire

Education is the essential foundation for women's economic empowerment. Unfortunately, too many girls and women in the United States, as well as globally, remain under-served educationally.

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A Dream Deferred

Esther Munthali | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Girl Up Campaign, Women's Rights, Rural Women, Child Marriage, Child Protection, Women in Rural Communities, Girl UP, International Women's Day, Women's Education, Malawi, Women's Education Malawi, Impact News
Esther Munthali

As a living example of the power of education, I am now a role model to the community and work to ensure that young women are able to reach their full potential.

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Why Do Girls Drop Out Of School? It's All About What Happens In The Girls' Room

Susan Davis | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Women's Health Global Poverty, Women's Health Initiative, Girls' Education, International Development, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Girl's Health, Global Motherhood, Girls' Health, Water Sanitation, 2012 International Women's Day, Women's Education, Global Sanitation, Women News
Susan Davis

More people in the world now have a mobile phone than have a toilet. As we celebrate International Women's Day on March eighth, let's not forget that girls and women suffer the most from lack of sanitation.

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The Key to Global Recovery

Sandra Taylor | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Working Women, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Womens Empowerment, Third Billion, The Third Billion Campaign, Women's Education, Women in Business, Impact News
Sandra Taylor

Women will never realize their potential as "economic engines" if they are subject to abuse at home or can't own or exercise control over property.

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Another Look at the Seven Billion

Mary Anne Mercer | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Reproductive Rights, World Population Growth, Global Population Growth, International-Family-Planning, Women's Education, World News
Mary Anne Mercer

There are still millions of women like Vishnu Maya all over the world. If those women had genuine options in their childbearing and in their lives, we would not be facing the seven billionth birth this month.

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Refugee Reeducation: Teens Find New Home At The Global Village School

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Education, Civil War, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Private Schools, War, Decatur, Refugees, Women's Education, Global Village School, Impact News

Bertha Nibigira, a Burundi student, says she had never read a book before being enrolling at Decatur, Georgia's Global Village School . Nibigira is...

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WATCH: Rainn Wilson Of 'The Office' On Why He Gives Back

Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Haiti Relief, Rainn Wilson the Office, Video, Poverty, Charity, Rainn Wilson, Haiti, Social Good, Haiti Aid, Planting Peace, Women's Education, Impact News

"The Office" star Rainn Wilson is known for his antics as Dwight on Thursday nights, but offscreen his ambitions reach far beyond becoming regional ma...

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From Suffrage To The White House: Remember The Past, Fight For The Future

Elinor Steele | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Rights, Women's Equality, Women's Suffrage, First Female President, Female President, Suffrage, Elinor Steele, Chain of Confidence, Women's Education, Tupperware, Sewall-Belmont House, Women News
Elinor Steele

Do you know the feeling of being in the presence of greatness? I felt surrounded and embraced by that feeling during my recent visit to the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Head Of Afghan Girl's School Killed By Taliban

Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Women's Education, Women's Rights, Afghanistan Girl's School, Porak Girl's School@Depressing, Afghanistan, Women's Education, Khan Mohammad, World News

In the latest attack by hardline Islamists who oppose women's education, Taliban insurgents killed the headmaster of an Afghan school after he ignored...

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In Her Own Words: A Young Tanzanian Woman Working Towards Success

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greatest Person of the Day, Women's History Month, Women's Rights, Tanzania, Women's Education, Impact News

This post is part of our month-long series featuring Greatest Women of the Day, in recognition of Women's History Month. To nominate a Greatest Wom...

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'Girls Learn': Helping Girls Across The Globe Access Education

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Girls Learn, Greatest Person of the Day, Girls Learn International, Global Education, Women's Education, Impact News

This post is part of our month-long series featuring Greatest Women of the Day, in recognition of Women's History Month. To nominate a Greatest Wom...

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Rebuilding the House of Wisdom

Athanasios Moulakis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Scholars, Iraqi Education, Education in Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Institute of International Education, Women, Education, Kurds, Iraq, Women's Education, World News
Athanasios Moulakis

Iraq has ingrained traditions of learning, including the professional academic preparation of women. Whatever can be said for the American invasion, it devastated Iraqi higher education.

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Investing in Girls' and Women's Education: A Smart Strategy for Development in Africa

Robert Hormats | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Education, State Department, Africa, Women Entrepreneurs, African Business, Shosholoza, Entrepreneurship, Business, African-Growth-and-Opportunity-Act, Women's Education, Agoa, World News
Robert Hormats

No nation can power its economic growth without empowering its women. It is like trying to succeed in an increasingly competitive world with one arm tied behind your back.

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Miss America: We Fund Scholars

Sam Haskell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Haskell

The Miss America system provides up to $45 million in scholarships each year -- who else is putting women through college like that?

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Births Up -- No, Down!: Stats and the Politics of Fertility Anxiety

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Census, Sex, Breaking News, Birth Rates, Cdc, Fertility, Fertility Anxiety, Living Childfree, Teen Birth Rise, Women's Work, Women's Education, Style News
Elizabeth Gregory

Anxiety helps put pressure on women to have babies now, at whatever age -- along with the recent highly politicized decreases in access to birth control, especially for younger women.

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