Ideal Country for Women Starting a Business?
According to “India is Great For Women Entrepreneurs, Bad For Women. How Is This Possible?,” Amit Midha, Dell’s Chairman For Global Emerging Markets says: “We have found the ideal country for a woman...
View ArticleConnecting Women and Youth to Dignified Work Via the Internet
Leila Janah (pictured) is Founder and CEO of Samasource. Prior to Samasource: Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University’s Center...
View ArticleIn India, Here’s What Can Happen to Your Daughter, Sister, Girlfriend or You
We Condemn! In sadness to the recent rape of a 23-year old female student in New Delhi by six men on a public bus, we feature this piece by Ranjani Iyer Mohanty, a writer and editor based in India....
View ArticleWomen Are Creating Businesses at a Fast Pace In Our World
For the first time in 13 years, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study of 59 economies shows that women are creating businesses at a greater rate than men in three economies and in four...
View ArticleTogether, We Can Elevate the Status of Women and Girls Worldwide
Sec. of State Kerry with former Sec. of State Clinton The promotion of international women’s issues as a key component of U.S. diplomatic and development efforts cannot begin and end with former...
View ArticleWomen Should Be An Integral Part of World Progress
At the recent Forbes Women’s Summit 2013 in New York entitled “Power Redefined; Generations Unite to Change the World,” Badr Jafar, CEO of Crescent Enterprises, a UAE-based conglomerate operating...
View ArticleWomen the World Over Who Dare to Start Their Own Business
Cuna (Panama) Woman According to a new report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which tracks entrepreneurial activity in 67 countries, women lead in entrepreneurship in seven countries. Women...
View ArticleForge a Global Partnership
We posted about this fabulous article on our sister site, The Global Small Business Blog. Women continue to embrace entrepreneurship and forge relationships across borders. Forming global...
View ArticleWomen Make Their Mark in the Entrepreneurial World
Chennai, Tamil NaduIndia Women are making their mark in the entrepreneurial world yet they continue to face problems, particularly in cities such as Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and...
View ArticleWinning Women Global Entrepreneurs
Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts, U.S.A. How do you advance women’s entrepreneurship? Five Babson College women have spent their careers studying women entrepreneurs, and they’re sharing...
View ArticleCelebrating Entrepreneurship and Women in Particular
Melinda Emerson My friend, colleague and entrepreneur dynamo, Melinda Emerson, kicks off the 6th annual Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a menu of events around the world that bring together...
View ArticleGains in Women’s Status and Gender Equality Worldwide
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program released Women’s Lives and Challenges: Equality and Empowerment since 2000 (PDF, 18171K), a...
View ArticleWomen Carry the Weight of Water on Their Backs in Developing Countries
According to Gemma Bulos in her article “Water, Dignity and Sustainable Livelihoods for Women in Kenya,” women outnumber male entrepreneurs in developing economies because they face higher barriers to...
View ArticleSuccess Stories Through Entrepreneurship
Eleven women from India overcame hardships by becoming entrepreneurs. Sakubai Lokhande, is one such entrepreneur, who comes from a tiny village in Maharashtra and started making brooms and ropes. She...
View ArticleTo Succeed, Women Must be Confident and Competent
Is lack of confidence holding women back? Authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman (pictured) make a good argument in The Atlantic that it is: Even as our understanding of confidence expanded, however,...
View ArticleBest Places In the World For Female Entrepreneurship?
Dell announced the results of the second annual Gender-Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), revealing that more than 75 per cent of the countries surveyed were not meeting the most...
View ArticleOpportunities Exist in the Middle East for Women Business Owners
Sarah Hildersley, Regional Coordinator – South West, Overseas Business Networks Program, Business West , talks about her time in the Middle East and the opportunities which exist for UK companies....
View ArticleStepping Stones to Prosperity for Kenya Women
Empowering Kenyan women. It goes like this. A New York-based social enterprise Bird & Stone sells jewelry and sends 15 percent of its profits to the SiSi Fund. SiSi Fund: A micro-finance fund in...
View ArticleWomen Buck the Trend in Sri Lanka and Become Entrepreneurs
Sri Lankan women. To achieve economic empowerment, women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka yearn for a successful career. They also help their families, and the country, prosper. Women entrepreneurship can...
View ArticleWOW! International Go Topless Day?
“International Go Topless Day” 2014. I had to read this twice to understand what was happening. On August 24th, New Yorkers – men and women alike – ditched their shirts and joined people around the...
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