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To give credit where it is due, some companies such as Avon have been giving to girls and women for a long time. But for the most part, corporations lag way behind. Here are four ways to close the “giving gap.”
“None of us have put our brushes down,” a pioneering donor told a recent gathering “You paint until you can’t.” Now she is energized by “bringing younger and younger women into philanthropy.”
The plays that wind up getting performed emerge from group storytelling and are a form of people’s theater. “This is a way to help household workers to stand up and make their voices heard,” says the group’s founder. “This is what I want.” Translation assistance by Yuan Ye.
Automation is changing the nature of work in ways that some compare to the industrial revolution. That’s causing some concern about the fate of low-paying service sectors where women dominate.
Divorced women who deferred their education to put husbands through school or moved multiple times to enable their husbands to move up the career ladder are at special risk. So are those who gave up jobs to raise children.
These work options are a win-win for businesses and also the key to inviting some of the most highly educated and underutilized candidates back into the workforce.
What better way to honor the unsung financial contributions of these women? It would also send a signal to black women to make financial health a critical part of their everyday lives and foster the necessary push for financial mentoring.
Neeru Sharma says it took passion and conviction to start her online retail outlet. That’s a message more women in India’s male-dominated and high-powered startup environment need to hear.
She woke up every morning at 4:30 a.m., made lunches, cooked a hot breakfast for the family (I’m talking bacon and eggs) and then drove an hour north of where we lived to work in an enclosed room with no ventilation, applying airplane glue to seams on rainwear.
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.