By Making It on 8 March, 2012
The front cover of the “We can do it!” issue of Making It has been the subject of many appreciative comments but also quite a few asking about the origins of the image. Here is a brief explanation.
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By Making It on 1 December, 2011
Women in poor countries need resources to tap their entrepreneurial potential and ease the path to taking small ventures and building them up, according to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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By Making It on 23 November, 2011
‘Women hold up half the sky’ is a Chinese proverb affirming women’s equal contribution to the human experience but it is an aspirational, rather than a factual, claim. In developed and developing countries alike, gender gaps persist in education, health, work, wages and political participation.
For this issue of Making It, the theme is gender equality [...]
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