Economic Development & Security

Women contribute actively to economic development and sustainability. Their social status determines their access to opportunities for economic autonomy and advancement. In the US, the glass ceiling is still firmly in place in many sectors of the economy. Globally, economic development efforts are doomed to failure without women’s active involvement and participation. More efforts need to focus on empowering women as wage earners, entrepreneurs and business owners. Microfinance programs also offer great potential to lift women out of poverty.

NCRW Resources

NCRW Summary: Economic Recovery in the Cities

FEBRUARY 1, 2010 Representatives from New York City and surrounding cities gathered at Columbia...

Reports & Publications

Women in Fund Management: A Road Map for Achieving Critical Mass — and Why it Matters

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:19am

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:22am

NCRW Economic Recovery and Stimulus Project

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 3:23pm

Recession, Stimulus and the Child Care Sector: Understanding Economic Dynamics, Calculating Impact

Friday, July 30, 2010 - 10:54am

Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Our Nation's Economic Recovery Efforts

Friday, July 30, 2010 - 12:15pm

Member Organizations

Center for the Study of Women in Society

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR
International Center for Research on Women

Washington, DC
National Women's Law Center

Washington, DC
Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA
Women's eNews

New York, NY

Resources

Women’s Control over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources, including Microfinance

This World Survey of the Role of Women in Development, published by DESA in Oct. 2009, addresses...
Web site for DESA (UN Dept. of Economic & Social Affairs)

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) addresses global issues...
More women in finance, a more sustainable economy

As has been pointed out with increasing frequency, a certain group think has been widely blamed...
Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Action Plan, April 2009

In 2007, the World Bank Group launched an action plan to improve women’s economic...
Advancing Women in the Global Marketplace

This report stems from Advancing Women in the Global Marketplace, a meeting and consultation...

Blog Posts

Investing in Child Care Pays Large Dividends in Economic Growth

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By Shyama Venkateswar, Ph.D.*I joined a distinguished panel of researchers, advocates, and experts at the Yale Club on Thursday, January 19th when I...

National Council of Women’s Organizations Launches “Respect, Protect, Reject” Campaign

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This post was originally featured on the Institute for Women's Policy Research Blog on July 19, 2011. By Heidi Reynolds-Stenson

Changing Workplace Scheduling as an Anti-Poverty Strategy

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By Melissa StevensonAt the June 22nd brown bag lunch, “Changing Workplace Scheduling as an Anti-Poverty Strategy,” sponsored by Half in...

Living Wages and Economic Security Out of Reach for Many Americans

Kate Meyer

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Looking to Women in America for Solutions

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*By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal...

Member Experts

Nancy Biberman

Nancy Biberman founded WHEDco in 1991 with the vision of restoring the South Bronx to the beautiful, bustling place it once was. WHEDco’s first...

Khushbu Srivastava

Khushbu Srivastava joined the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation as Director or Marketing and Communications in October 2010...

Radhika Balakrishnan

Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, has a Ph.D. in...

Sari Kerr

Sari Pekkala Kerr is an economist and a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She joined the WCW in 2010...

Kyla Bender-Baird

Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...

News

Can Estrogen Fuel Our Global Economy?

August 19, 2011

Christine Bronstein argues that women are making inroads into old-boy business networks, profiling entrepreneurial women and female venture capitalists.
Five Lessons for the Microfinance Industry

July 25, 2011

Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking (WWB), the world’s largest network of microfinance institutions and banks, explains where she thinks microfinance has gone wrong, why women should continue to be the focus...
Report: Walking the Talk: Cash Transfers and Gender Dynamics, A Report by Concern Worldwide and Oxfam GB

May 6, 2011

This report looks at the impacts of cash transfers (CTs) on gender dynamics both within households and communities. This report was commissioned because of the agencies’ concerns that while CTs, now being used in many different...
Risky Business for Afghan Female CEOs

November 5, 2010

Daily Beast: Women starting businesses in Afghanistan face many risks in addition to the usual pitfalls of running your own operation--graduates of Goldman Sach's 10,000 Women program shared their experiences at an event in New York City.
(Audio) Equality Still Elusive For World's Women

September 23, 2010

NPR: "Women right's advocates have made some strides in recent decades. But most of the world's poorest are female, fewer girls than boys attend school and women are still vastly underrepresented in leadership positions. Former Ireland...

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What We Do

NCRW is a network of leading university and community based research, policy, and advocacy centers with a growing global reach dedicated to advancing rights and opportunities for women and girls. We also have a Corporate Circle comprised of senior diversity professionals from leading U.S. and global member companies and a Presidents Circle of college and university leaders who share our commitment. NCRW harnesses the collective power of its network to provide knowledge, analysis, and thought leadership on issues ranging from reducing women’s poverty to building a critical mass of women’s leadership across sectors.