Op-Ed: ‘Why the Global Economy Needs Businesses To Invest in Women’
A woman walks past screens showing graphs of stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange on November 21, 2011. [AP File Photo]

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer and President of the Women in the World Foundation Kim Azzarelli co-authored an opinion piece that appears today on The Daily Beast website. In the piece, Ambassador Verveer and Ms. Azzarelli underscore why the global economy needs the “other 51 percent.” The text of their article follows below.

“Businesses are starting to understand what development experts have long known: investing in women pays dividends. Women are more likely than men to put their income back into their communities, driving illiteracy and mortality rates down and GDP up.

“Now a corporate revolution is at hand, one that is moving beyond philanthropy,… more »

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