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Young Entrepreneur Revives Old Craft in Kashmir

By Nusrat Ara ● Employment ● May 20, 2012

The quality and export of Kashmiri rugs have declined, but one young woman is putting pride and decent wages back into the traditional craft. In a region where such female entrepreneurship is a rarity, she says training makes all the difference.

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Girl Scouts Cookie Sales Cultivate Young Leaders

By Kathy Cloninger ● Employment ● October 22, 2011

Selling Girl Scouts cookies is more than a fundraiser; it shows women how to become strong leaders, says Kathy Cloninger in this excerpt from her new book “Tough Cookies: Leadership Lessons from 100 Years of the Girl Scouts.”

Chilean Women Rebuild Lives Smashed by Tsunami

By Lezak Shallat ● Employment ● July 4, 2011

Some give up traditional livelihoods and do something new. Others stay put and rebuild from within devastated towns. Throughout the shoreline communities of southern Chile hardest hit by the 2010 tsunami, women are driving a long, hard recovery.

Microcredit Skeptics Deserve a Turn in the Limelight

By Corinna Barnard ● Employment ● May 13, 2011

Bad news came this week for shareholders of India’s largest microlender. That offers a chance to tout two writers who always said high interest rates–of 20 percent and higher–were never the best news for the world’s poorest female borrowers.

Lawmakers Get Lesson in Curbing Economic Abuse

By Rich Daly ● Crime & Law ● October 26, 2009

Economic privation is gaining attention as a critical component of domestic abuse. Last week a U.S. lawmaker held a congressional hearing and advocates recommend financial education to break the syndrome.

Pushed to Return to Rwanda, Women Farmers Uprooted

By Womens Enews Staff ● Politics ● July 31, 2009

In Uganda’s U.N.-run camps for Rwandan refugees, the July 31 repatriation deadline is causing particular hardships for women. For one thing, it has disrupted many families’ growing season. The last of three stories on repatriation turmoil.

President’s Fund Repays Liberia’s Market Women

By Sheryl Nance-Nash ● Uncategorized ● March 5, 2009

The Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund raises money for the dilapidated market places around the country that employ most of the women and function as multi-purpose social service centers.

African Businesswomen Create and Spread Wealth

By Nicole Itano ● Employment ● September 27, 2005

In South Africa, women are taking advantage of new laws promoting diversity to share and spread the country’s wealth. In neighboring Zambia, another woman builds a hospitality empire from $40. Second in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.