Are you ready to embrace your role as a leader and create change? The following guideline will help you to think strategically about how to take action.
There are many easy ways to learn, reflect, and inspire other women in your community – like hosting a watch party, facilitating a discussion, or engaging with the event on social media.
Start by expressing your commitment to changing the world for women and girls. Download a commitment card to guide your next steps and share with your community.
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Fact Sheet for the Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls
Excerpts from The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink; Personal Action, Collective Impact, By Anne Mosle
The Relationship Between the Global Food Security Index and Women’s Reproductive Health, by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Aspen Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
Family Planning is the Missing Investment, by the Aspen Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
The Population-Climate Connection: Why Family Planning is a Win-Win for Women and the Planet, by the Aspen Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health
When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: Women’s Economic Empowerment 2020, by Ascend at the Aspen Institute
Sustaining the Movement: Changing the Culture, Promising Practices Across Sectors to Stop Sexual Harassment, by the Aspen Forum on Women and Girls
In the U.S., 42 million women and 28 million children live on the economic brink
Globally, women are paid less than men. Women in most countries earn on average only 60 to 75 percent of men’s wages
When paid and unpaid work are combined, women in developing countries work more than men, with less time for education, leisure, political participation and self-care
As of June 2016, only 22.8 percent of all national parliamentarians were women
More than 150 countries have at least one law that is discriminatory towards women
It is estimated that 81% of women and 43% of men in the U.S. have experienced some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetimes
Women’s foundations fill a gap in giving to women and girls by actively raising and granting millions of dollars annually.
