Leadership

Rosario Pérez helms a social enterprise for women that has disbursed more than $1 billion in small loans to women in Latin America. Here she talks about her organization, herself and a client base that has a strong drive for financial independence.

Melissa Mark-Viverito leads a progressive City Council and personally exemplifies the city’s ethnic leadership. At the same time she notes a sharp decline in female representation on the council. “This obviously represents a problem,” she says in this Q & A interview.

The 114th U.S. Congress convened Tuesday, Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., with 104 women, a record. Eighty-four women will serve in the House of Representatives and 20 in the Senate. There were 100 women in the last Congress. Here is a sampling of their Tweets.