Empowering Women and Growing Economies Together

Women leaders discuss the importance of women's involvement in economies around the world at the recent Growing Economies through Women's Entrepreneurship conference in Paris, France.
The Pre-G20 Growing Economies through Women's Economic Entrepreneurship conference in Paris stresses the importance of women's inclusion into the economic sphere and greater gender equality, not only as values on their own but also to help grow economies as investing in women is very smart economics, maximizing investments with big environmental and social impacts. The conference previews new pilot programs that will translate the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) report into action, while spotlighting shared efforts and raising broader awareness of barriers to women's economic empowerment. Companies, governments and civil society can and are doing more to address these barriers and fully unleash the potential of women's entrepreneurship.
Video includes quotes from U.S. Ambassador to the OECD Karen Kornbluh; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Academy Award-winning Actor and Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Geena Davis; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer; Steve Radelet, Chief Economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development; U.S. Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development Marisa Lago and Julie Katzman, Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

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