if you educate a boy you train a man if you educate a girl you train a village explain? (on the basis on women empowerment)
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France’s Christine Lagarde was the first woman to become finance minister of a G8 economy and is the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund. She calls for opening the door to women’s learning, labour and leadership in the economy.
The 21st century poses many challenges that require new ways of thinking, none more important than the economic role of women in a rapidly changing world.
The global economy is struggling to generate the growth that can provide a better life for all, and all can contribute, yet women remain blocked from contributing their true potential. This has a huge cost: in some countries per capita incomes lag significantly because women are denied equal opportunity. They represent half the world’s population, but contribute far less than 50 per cent of economy activity. Indeed, the gap between men and women in terms of measured economic activity ranges from 12 per cent in the OECD countries to 50 per cent in the Middle East and North Africa.
Globally, women earn only three-quarters as much as men—even with the same level of education and in the same occupation. Surely one of our most basic norms should be ‘equal pay for equal work.
What is needed to change this picture is a concerted effort to open the door to opportunity with what I call the ‘three L’s’ of women’s empowerment: learning, labour and