“Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.” WorldGirlOpportunityEconomicEmpowermentAround The WorldEmpoweringInitiativeEmpowering WomenWalmartEconomic Empowerment Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.” WantMayGirlRightsEconomicAspectEmploymentWomens RightsResolute Author:R. Heber Newton
“Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.” ImportantHelpingEarthPoliticalGirlGrowthRightsEconomicGainsResourcesPopulationFactorsPlusGorePopulation GrowthEconomic PowerWorld PopulationReproductive RightsPoint BreakSafeguarding Author:Al Gore
“When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.” SeemsGirlSocialCommonMoralEconomicCommon SenseKicksCyclesEducate Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“There's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsSometimesReasonProblemHandsGirlSocialPrayerEconomicSupermarketsProblems In Society Author:Michael Glawogger
“Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.” MenHumansDoeValuesGirlHuman BeingsLevelsPayEconomicEqualMen And WomenBottomGenderCrucialReplacementsInsistenceEqual PayCaregivingEconomic Value Author:Gloria Steinem