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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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.