“10,000 Women”: Educating Female Entrepreneurs in Developing Nations

Goldman Sachs has a new initiative called 10,000 Women . This initiative aims to provide business and management education to 10,000 women primarily in developing and emerging nations.

In this article, Dina Habib Powell of Goldman Sachs points out that there are encouraging signs that the world is ready to invest in women and discusses the why’s behind the development of 10,000 Women.

By Dina Habib Powell
Special to CNN

Editor’s note: Dina Habib Powell, global head of corporate engagement at Goldman Sachs, served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs from 2005 to 2007.

NEW YORK (CNN) — As we mark International Women’s Month in March, it is encouraging to see that the movement to recognize the vital role that women play in families, nations and economies has been building for more than a decade and that developments in the past few years have shown that real progress has begun to take hold.

On the heels of International Women’s Day, President Obama said Monday, “we will not sow the seeds for a brighter future or reap the benefits of the change we need without the full and active participation of women around the world.”

He also recently announced the creation of a new position, ambassador-at-large for global women’s Issues, at the State Department.

To fill this critical role, the president nominated Melanne Verveer, a widely respected women’s advocate and former top aide to then first lady Hillary Clinton.

Verveer was a founder of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an organization committed to empowering women and recently co-chaired by Secretary Clinton and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.

There has also been very recent progress on Capitol Hill. Last month, the U.S. Senate created a Foreign Relations subcommittee that will focus on the global status of women, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California. More . . .

 Click here to read “Women Entrepreneurs Get Global Helping Hand” (The Wall Street Journal )

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