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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘women’s empowerment’
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 »
All Hail the Next Generation
Posted in gender equality, generations, women's leadership, tagged generational differences, girls' empowerment, international youth day, women's empowerment, Womenable on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that today is International Youth Day? Neither did I until yesterday, but the day is fast approaching when the young women and men of Generation Y will move into positions of responsibility and start to put their imprint on the world. So, in recognition that this day is coming soon, why not [...]
Musings on Women’s History Month
Posted in business, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, tagged Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, Women's History Month, Womenable on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On a recent trip to Washington, DC, to – what else – advocate for women’s economic empowerment in my new role as Chair of the Association of Women’s Business Centers, I was catching up on my business magazine reading. I ran across an article about “do it yourself” animated movie-making, and I thought it sounded [...]
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Madam C.J. Walker
Posted in business, women business owners, women's business ownership, tagged Black History Month, Julie Weeks, Madam C.J. Walker, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on February 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
February is Black History Month in the United States. Started way back in 1925 as Negro History Week, and set during the month containing the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, it was expanded to the entire month of February in 1976 and renamed Black History Month. I just ran across this blogpost [...]
The Most Womenabling News of 2010
Posted in business, gender equality, International development issues, international gender rankings, women's business development, women's enterprise development, tagged business growth, Davos World Economic Forum, economic impact, Economica, gender equality, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, ICSB, IJGE, International Museum of Women, Julie Weeks, market access, Millennium Development Goals, NWBC, procurement, top ten list, UN Women, United Kingdom, US Census Bureau, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, Womenable on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In our year-end e-newsletter, rather than summarizing the latest womenabling news and providing womenablers everywhere with insights to educate, enlighten and empower your efforts, we’re ending the year by compiling what we feel are the most interesting and relevant activities that have taken place in the field of women’s enterprise development in 2010. Repeated here, [...]
