I felt compelled to build Girl Rising because I had stumbled across the story of a lifetime, and here’s the headline: Educating Girls Can Change the World.
Gaza Sky Geeks aims to transform Gaza into a globally competitive tech hub for online outsourcing, freelancing, and entrepreneurship by teaching coding.
We are all biased. Behavioral design provides quick, cheap ways for organizations and people to overcome gender bias. It's the right + smart thing to do.
There is an active and growing field of gender lens investing in Asia. The USAID report, Gender Lens Investing in Asia, documents these people and stories.
We hear often that ventures started by women are promising but under-supported. Is it true they have a harder time raising money? Do the data back it up?
Watch this interview as Chris Shipley weaves in and out of the "Mythology of Silicon Valley," to what it was like to be a tech mogul when 90% of the industry was male dominate, to her more personal struggles and victories with feeling like a "misfit."
Watch this 2012 Unreasonable Institute entrepreneur's talk on how her venture is bringing women in rural communities an opportunity to provide for their families.
Watch this 2011 Unreasonable Institute entrepreneur's talk on how her venture is providing an affordable solution for women and girls in poverty whose livelihoods are immersed by the needs and time transporting water.
Watch this 2011 Unreasonable Institute entrepreneur talk about how her venture is bringing sustainable education and employment opportunities to women & girls in Pakistan by