Today, women all across the world confront implicit and explicit hurdles to full economic participation. As professionals working in global development, we should take a moment to recognize both the women who are achieving their economic potential through entrepreneurship and the initiatives that have assisted them in their pursuits. Pursuing women’s economic empowerment includes providing …
Being empowered is having control over one’s life and having an equal chance to engage in society. Women’s empowerment, also known as female empowerment, is the process through which women acquire power and equal opportunity to pursue their own social, economic, and personal goals, participating in all facets of society on an equal footing with …
Women’s equal involvement and leadership in political and public life are critical to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) by 2030. However, studies reveal that women are underrepresented at all levels of decision-making globally, and that gender parity in political life is still a long way off. Women’s leadership and political participation are limited at all levels, …
Youngest female billionaire Elizabeth Holmes (born February 3, 1984 in Washington, D.C.), is an American entrepreneur who founded and ran the medical diagnostic company Theranos Inc. from 2003 to 2018. She was dubbed the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire in 2014, but by June 2016, estimates of her net worth had plummeted due to serious …
