According to a report published by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and the GSMA, Women and Mobile: A Global Opportunity, cell phones improve women’s lives: 93 percent of female mobile phone users feel safer with a phone, 85 percent feel more independent, and 41 percent use their phones to increase their income and professional opportunities. Moreover, closing the gender gap is not only good for women and development, it’s good for business. Adding 300 million women subscribers could generate $13 billion in immediate incremental revenue for mobile phone operators. Such statistics indicate that there is much to be gained by empowering women through mobile technology. Learn more.
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Women & Mobile: An Empowering Partnership
In Education, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Media & Technology on October 16, 2011 at 3:39 pmExperts and Activists Help Women Deliver
In Conferences, Girls, Government, Leadership, Uncategorized on May 26, 2010 at 3:30 pmIn less than two weeks the world’s leading voices on advancing the lives and livelihoods of women and girls around the world will come together in Washington, D.C., for the 2010 Women Deliver Summit. The summit features speakers from Melinda Gates, Anthony Lake, Shadi Sadr to Christiane Amanpour, Annie Lennox, and Christy Turlington Burns and hopes to kick start a new era of global action as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.
The theme of the conference is: “Delivering solutions for girls and women,” and plans to focus on political, economic, social/cultural, and technological solutions, as well as expand on Women Deliver’s hallmark of inclusivity, reaching out to new partners and new communities.
Obama Administration Announces Changes to Title IX
In Girls, Government on April 21, 2010 at 7:00 amVice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the Obama administration is changing the policy that governs gender equality in sports by eliminating what some women’s rights supporters claim was a Bush administration loophole in compliance.
The change is a reaffirmation of the government’s commitment to providing women with full and equal opportunities in education and sports, said Biden and women who have benefited from the policy, known as Title IX. Read more.
