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Gender Equity: A World Where We All Win.

By Randi Hedin, Board Member, buildOn

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Men and women mixing concrete to build a school; Malawi. Photo: buildOn

On the surface, the fight for gender equity seems to be making tremendous strides. Women are graduating from college in record numbers—as many as 46 percent of women aged 25-34 in the U.S. currently hold bachelor’s degrees (up from only 8 percent in 1970.) Across the world, 41 percent of women hold post-secondary degrees. Here in Seattle, at the University of Washington, 56.7% of all undergraduate and graduate degrees were awarded to women. Women wield considerable economic clout, too. Within the next five years, women are expected to control as much as 75 percent of all discretionary spending worldwide. 

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Landesa

By Joel Meyers

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Secure land rights in Bong County, Liberia enable communities to grow food for sustenance and income. Photo: Landesa

Landesa advances pro-poor, gender-sensitive land rights reforms through law and policy tools. These reforms have helped alleviate poverty, reduce hunger, and ease conflict over land for more than 180 million families. Secure rights to land boost agricultural productivity, improve health, nutrition and school enrollment, and have placed billions of dollars in new land wealth in the hands of rural people.

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Strength in Numbers: How Neena Joshi is Elevating Asia’s Women Farmers

By Amber Cortes

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Neena Joshi, Senior Vice President of Asia Programs, Heifer International. Photo: Heifer

Heifer’s new Senior Vice President of Asia Programs, Neena Joshi, is used to being around strong women.

Born and raised in Kathmandu, Joshi says her childhood was vibrant and exciting.

“I was a typical city girl, that was my life,” Joshi says.

The house was alive with intellectual and political conversations, from guests of her father, a noted writer, poet, and activist.

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