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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...

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Connecting 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...

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In 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....

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Women 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...

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Together, 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...

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Women 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...

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Women 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...

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Forge 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...

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Women 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...

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Winning 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...

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Celebrating 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...

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Gains 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...

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Women 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...

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Success 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...

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To 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,...

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Best 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...

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Opportunities 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....

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Stepping 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...

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Women 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...

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WOW! 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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