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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. One study found that if care work were assigned a monetary value, it would account for 10 to 39 percent of GDP. None of these elements can stand alone.

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Getting Japanese Women Back on Track

Harvard Business Review

million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent.". Among the 438 Japanese college-educated women in the CWLP survey, 63% say that they quit because their career was not satisfying and nearly half left because they felt stalled in their careers. Flextime and programmatic help would help ease the burden.