The galleys of the U.S. book today, in the offices of Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York. I finally finished the book I have been workin...

This holiday season, forget giving yet another expected Christmas present and make this year’s gift giving matter! 2016 has been full of ...

Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment: What the Next US Administration Should Do originally appeared on the Center for Global Developmen...

Guest blog by Betsy Teutsch, activist and author of 100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools For Empowering Global Women In the rich world, wome...

“The work continues. We can never be complacent.” –First Lady Michelle Obama in response to Oprah’s question about the one take away she w...

Naila Chowdhury, this week’s guest blogger, has worked on women’s empowerment and gender equality for over 20 years. My passion is to giv...

The data that inspired those of us who work in this area are also relatively new.  The correlations of gender data presented and analyzed...

Guest Blog by Betsy Teutsch, Activist and author of 100 Under $100 Technology has the power to help impoverished women in low-resource ar...

Guest blog by Arancha González, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre The multiple social and economic dividends from wome...

Nope. No happy shopper stereotypes allowed at Power Shift 2015, even if the theme is Women and Markets. Avoiding stereotypes and conventi...

America’s laggard position on maternity leave is appropriate fodder for late night comedy, but there are other ways, such as affirmative ...

It is as important to have justice in economic life as elsewhere. But a long habit of thinking the law is somehow above economics has led...

A negative attitude toward women asking for money punishes those who “lean in” to the tug of war over salary. I have been reviewing the m...

I have had quite a few requests for the slides in the talk I gave at the UN yesterday, prior to the handover of the Power Shift Call to A...

Guest blog by Susan Chaffin, who has 25 years’ experience addressing the challenges facing people in developing countries. International ...

Last month I attended a meeting in Cape Town held by the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth.  Their board of Senior Advisors was gath...

My new essay on “Thinking Critically About Women’s Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries” can be downloaded from the link at the end o...

Multiple studies, using large samples and various methods, have demonstrated that greater gender diversity among corporate boards would h...

In Eastern Europe, fertility has been below replacement rate for a generation already. (Click to see bigger image.) As with all the benef...

To illustrate the potential for change by empowering women, I show the text of an email I got about two years ago from a woman working fo
This constitutes a serious violation of the dignity of women and discrimination by their men and society as a whole. You can see here that the conditions of conflict and the vulnerability of the women feeds the vicious cycle. The women are under constant sexual pressure and have no way to push back.  The fertility thus continues to rise.  T