IMPACT INDIA
How to Support Women Social Entrepreneurs in India
Realizing the transformative potential of women’s leadership in India’s social enterprise sector will require persistent efforts to refine and mainstream gender-lens investing.
Tag: Women & Girls
Human Rights
Six SSIR Articles for International Women’s Day
A reading list of some of our favorite articles on women, girls, and gender equality.
Economic Development
When Care Work and Paid Work Collide
While people in the Western world often assume that extended families in developing countries are oppressive to women who marry into them, family support can actually enable women to take on paying jobs outside the home.
Civic Engagement
Digital Natives Collect Community Needs
Humanitas AI has created a smartphone app to enable young people to coordinate social projects.
IMPACT INDIA
Women, Prosperity, and Social Change in India
Social enterprise, which promises both economic empowerment and social trans-formation, is driving tremendous positive change in the lives of women in India. But it is also at the heart of a growing debate about the past and future of India's social sector.
Water & Sanitation
Taps and Toilets for All
Microfinance for water and sanitation enables people to find their own solutions.
Health
Reproductive Health Care by Mail
It is time to give US women the convenience and autonomy of birth control and abortion pills that women elsewhere enjoy.
Social Enterprise
Gender and Social Ventures
Presence of female business leaders in community can bolster launching female-led social enterprises.
Civic Engagement
Year of the Woman
From the Women’s March to #MeToo, women have risen up to change politics and society.
Economic Development
Beyond Policy: How Gendered Interactions on the Ground Shape Development
Viewing social and economic development as a series of interpersonal interactions can help us understand why development outcomes sometimes diverge from policy goals, and how gendered interactions shape social and economic development.