She Means Business: Empowering Women to Accelerate Equality
Achieving gender equality is not just women’s business, it is everyone’s business. It also happens to be good business. The evidence overwhelmingly shows that empowering women has positive effects for us all and for our planet.?
As we celebrate women this March, IFC Insights invites you to meet inspiring women from around the world who are breaking barriers and reshaping the private sector. Like the female rice farmers in Senegal who are advancing climate-friendly, sustainable agribusiness. We also explore the success behind four women traders who defied all odds in their entrepreneurship journey. In Türkiye, women are shattering stereotypes and forging successful careers in traditionally male-dominated sectors. These stories, and more, highlight the importance of empowering women to participate fully in the economy as employees, leaders, consumers, business owners, and community members.?
Financial inclusion is another key driver of women's empowerment. Our featured report dives deep into how innovative fintech solutions can unlock new opportunities for women. The research shows that reaching more women can put the sector on firmer financial footing, with women tending to make for more reliable customers and generate higher lifetime value.?
Empowering women lies at the core of our investments because we know the indispensable role it plays in delivering on our overarching mission: ending poverty on a livable planet.
IFC Global Director, Gender and Economic Inclusion
Women in Senegal are reinventing rice farming techniques to confront climate change and ensure food security. Through entrepreneurship and activism, they are reinventing themselves, too.?Read More?| Lire l’article en fran?ais
When Korka Diaw started growing rice, she never imagined she'd become an advocate for Senegal's women farmers. Three decades later, she runs a 16,000-member organization and participates in national discussions on women's economic empowerment. Read More | Lire l’article en fran?ais
When women entrepreneurs thrive, entire communities prosper. Their success is a beacon of hope for generations to come. Here are the stories of four remarkable women who have not only shattered stereotypes within their respective fields but have also achieved remarkable success on their unique journeys.?Read More
A new program in Türkiye is redefining the roles of women in the workplace. Through a sustainability-linked loan by IFC, the Izmir Water and Sewerage Administration (IZSU) set an ambitious goal to hire 300 women in traditionally male-dominated roles by 2025.?Read More?
IFC’s Makhtar Diop speaks with the legendary singer Barbara Hendricks about her journey from the segregated southern United States to the world’s most prestigious opera stages.
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Across Central Asia, IFC is ramping up its work to expand financial services and market access for women-led businesses. Three women share stories of growth and entrepreneurship.?Read More?
Kenyan entrepreneur and gender equality champion, Eva Muraya , has built a successful brand advisory and communications agency, BSD Group , which serves high-profile clients across East Africa. Read More
From a junior accountant to the CEO of Khan Bank , Mongolia’s largest bank, Munkhtuya Rentsenbat believes in seizing opportunities to learn and grow.?Read More?
NEW RESEARCH
A new IFC report provides insights on how Fintech firms can leverage sex-disaggregated data to be a gamechanger for women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment in emerging markets, while capitalizing on the under-tapped women’s market. Read More
领英推荐
Digital financial services could be a gamechanger for women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment, but progress in closing the gender gaps in access to finance has been slow. Watch Video
In this episode of IFC Audio Stories, report authors Anushe Khan and Jorge Godoy discuss the role of digital financial services in advancing women's financial inclusion and highlight the opportunities for fintech firms to strategically target and serve women.?Listen here
WHAT'S ON THE HORIZON
Attend these events:
Location: Berlin, Germany | Event Date:?March 18
Location: San Francisco, California?| Event Date:?March 19
Location: Paris, France | Event Date:?April 8-12
Location: New York, New York | Event Date:?April 10
Location: London, United Kingdom | Event Date:?April 15-17
Location: Washington, DC | Event Date:?April 17-19
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JOB OPENINGS
To learn more about jobs at IFC, visit www.ifc.org/careers?and sign up for our “job alerts” to receive job opportunities in real time. Here are some of the openings:?
Location: Washington, DC | Deadline: March 15
Location: Washington, DC | Deadline: March 18
Location:?Manila, Philippines | Deadline: March 19
Location: Kingston, Jamaica | Deadline:?March 21
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil | Deadline: March 22
Location:?Washington, DC | Deadline: March 25
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IFC INSIGHTS EDITORIAL TEAM
Chance Barnett , Brian Beary , Lee-Roy Chetty , Moussoukoro Diop , Bukola Ogunyemi , Isabelle Poupaert , Nataliya Radchenko , Bassam Sebti , Daisy Serem , Gavin Thorpe , Vinit Tyagi , and Chris Vellacott .??
A special thank you to our guest contributors Djenno Bacvic , Alison Buckholtz , Hawa Seydou DIOP , Maria Kristina Galang , Armando Gallardo , Jason Hopps , Lindelwa M. , Angela Njeri , Kymbat Ybyshova , and Ruihua (Rayna) Zhang .
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