Fikre Debela
November 7, 2008
Many women around the world are not active participates of the workforce. In many third world countries women sometimes are never given the opportunity to gain access to a sufficient job. The only jobs many women have are the “care-taker “jobs. The men are the ones who go out and bring in the money for the family. However, gender and poverty equality is needed all over the world. One woman named Amanda Ellis has dedicated her time and money to making this more sufficient for women from third world countries.
Ellis first realized her passion for this job when she attended the World’s Bank Gender Action plan conference held in Washington D.C. Studies showed that giving women income helped to benefit their family, including the health and education of their children. Her interest in pursuing woman's entrepreneurship started when she visited a village and saw that aid money had been used in creating a silk fabric industry previously where these villagers and nothing. Ellis created the Gender Entrepreneurship Markets, a branch off of the World Bank. This helped to provide money to developing countries to help women create their own business. However, there are also many obstacles in the way of women being able to do this. In Switzerland a women has to ask her husband to open a bank account, in Cameroon a husband can put their sposes name on a list to prevent them from opening an account. Many things can hinder a women from starting their own business.
I think it is very good the Ellis has taken the intuitive to create these opportunities for these women. If gender inequality can stop maybe the finances of women would grow and people will be able to live better financially in third world countries.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/business/30877/resetting-balance-gender-poverty-issues?page=0%2C2
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