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.
These common patterns of talking make us sound unsure of ourselves and can stand in the way of being seen as confident leaders, says Judith Humphrey in this excerpt from the book “Taking the Stage.”
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.
Germany’s youngest and first female stockbroker for the NYSE and later its only war correspondent in Vietnam talks about how it happened. Good contacts and good timing helped. But she also jumped at opportunities.
Forget the downbeat aftermath of the midterms. Today’s climate is ideal for expanding women’s leadership. America’s millennial women will soon be among the largest political leadership blocs and we should engage them now.
Choti Bai has left the dehumanizing work behind and is helping other Dalit women follow her lead. Manual scavenging is illegal in India but activists estimate that over a million people, mostly women, are still caught in it.
The 81-year-old, known to her online fans as the Notorious R.B.G., is the oldest member of the court, but she says she’s not planning on going away any time soon. Here are some of her thoughts from a New York women’s health gathering earlier this week.
The U.K. has sunk to 65th place in global rankings of women’s political representation. This report offers new annual data to explain the decline and urges parties to field more women in strategic races in 2015.
Women are running the “cold chains” crucial to the success of any immunization drive. They’re also administering the medicine, keeping track of records and swaying male attitudes that seemed unalterably opposed just 10 years ago.
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