-Social Empowerment: Sustainable Life, Self-reliance, Dignity, Love and RespectNaila Chowdhury, this week’s guest blogger, has worked on women’s empowerment and gender equality for over 20 years. My passion is to give back to the women,...
-Equality Ethel Finds Her PowerThis new app can help women put their current power to work winning future power. Download it. Now. I’m serious. Consumer purchase is the lifeblood of the wo...
-Why Women Can’t Negotiate for Equal PayA negative attitude toward women asking for money punishes those who “lean in” to the tug of war over salary. I have been reviewing the most recent research ...
-The Economics of ExclusionI 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 Action. The text and ...
-Could women’s access to finance solve global poverty?Guest blogger, Alice Allan is Head of Advocacy and Policy at CARE International UK. The global negotiations to agree a set of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’...
-Inequality or Exclusion?Last month I attended a meeting in Cape Town held by the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. Their board of Senior Advisors was gathered to discuss the...
-Disrupting the financial system and empowering womenWhen I was growing up, my mother’s constant refrain to her daughters was ‘Make sure you are always financially independent’. This was borne out of the experi...
-Why Rich Women Need Financial InclusionYou don’t have to be an MBA to be financially literate. Learning about money is about protecting yourself and your future. Three women I know quite well came...
-You Want to Change the World? Help Two Women at Work!Marisa Drew, an investment banker at Credit Suisse, is a leader in the world of finance. Yesterday, she challenged each of 340 attending the Women in Bankin...
-Why Poor Women Need Financial InclusionThese women are in a savings program in Tanzania run by CARE. Many years of research have demonstrated that there is a particular problem standing between wo...
-Claiming Your Rights Takes Money in the BankA researcher working for CARE International sent me an expert survey. The questions began, “What is your definition of women’s economic empowerment?” I tho...
-Join the MovementIt was a wonderful moment. The Vice Chancellor came down the center of the Nelson Mandela Theatre to standing applause. He stopped on stage to explain the ...
-Big Petition, Worldwide Shout-OutOn the afternoon of May 29, the Oxford Forum for Women in the World Economy–the Power Shift Forum–will put a petition out to the world. It will say: We, the...
-Where’s the Money? “Impact for Breakfast” ReportFrom the left, Suzanne Biegel of Clearly So, Laurie Spengler of Enclude, and me, at Impact for Breakfast in London Some weeks back, I was invited to speak at...
-Four for the Future: Recapturing History for Today’s MovementVictoria Woodhull was the first female broker on Wall Street and the first woman to run for President. She was lost to history for 150 years because she does...
-Convergence: Imagining Gender Lens Investment StrategyThe most provocative session at the Convergence confab Day 1 was when groups were assigned to design specific financial instruments for particular industries...
-Power Shift: Intentions and ResolutionsDespite the palpable passion and inspiring optimism in this group, they were also concerned about the barriers and challenges—and the paucity of data and res...
-Angels in the Architecture: System Changers Meeting in LondonThis window was atop the doors in the room where the "system changers" met at ICAEW's home in London. I attended an interesting all day session in London yes...
-Gender Lens InvestingIn the United States and the United Kingdom, women are approaching a tipping point in their control over the money. More than half the millionaires in the UK...