The OECD’s Development Centre has updated their Social Institutions and Gender Index report. The SIGI, launched in 2009, gathers and reports on the underlying social institutions that influence gender roles and relations, complementing other gender equality measures that report on outcomes such as educational attainment or labor force participation. The SIGI finds that countries which [...]
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New Social Institutions and Gender Index Report from OECD
Posted in gender equality, International development issues, international gender rankings, women's business research studies, tagged empowering women, gender equality, OECD, SIGI, women's empowerment on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Google Joins the Women’s Enterprise Development Bandwagon … Cautiously
Posted in International development issues, women's business development, women's enterprise development, tagged empowering women, Goldman Sachs, Google, India, The Coca-Cola Company, Walmart, women's business development, women's entrepreneurship on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Large corporations are starting to trip over each other in the race to assist women entrepreneurs in developing economies (not that you’ll hear us complaining – far from it)! There’s Coke’s 5 x 20 program, Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initiative, and Walmart’s Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative. Now jumping into the fray, with a pilot [...]
A Womenabling Manifesto
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, political advocacy, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, during Global Entrepreneurship Week, I kicked off the FastTrac Global Women’s Summit at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City with an opening address focused on the key global and domestic trends in women’s entrepreneurship today. So, naturally, I touched on some of the most recent knowledge from the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global [...]
A Focus on Frameworks
Posted in gender equality, International development issues, women's business development, women's enterprise development, tagged AWID, empowering women, gender equality, Quantum Leaps, strategic frameworks, UN Women, United Nations, women's empowerment, Womenable on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint, would you, so why are so many efforts to provide greater economic empowerment for women undertaken without a strategic framework? A rhetorical question, we know, but we’d like to call attention to the fact that folks are starting to realize that a framework for action can make [...]
If We Own It, We Can Define It
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, women's enterprise development, tagged empowering women, high growth, Julie Weeks, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just spent a thought-provoking and engaging day discussing how to “drive collaboration, energize the global discussion, and create a road map for increasing women’s participation in high growth entrepreneurship” at the second annual We Own It Summit, organized by Astia with support from the Kauffman Foundation and other growth-focused groups. The summit, an invitation-only [...]
