Resources

Economic Freedoms, Technology and Business:

• Digital Toolkit
• The Gender Dividend (Deloitte, 2011)
• VIDEO: New Data on the Rise of Women (H. Rosin, 2010)
• How helping women helps business? (McKinsey Quarterly, 2010)
• Bridging the Gender Divide: How Technology Can Advance Women Economically (International Center for Research on Women, 2010)
• Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) in Korea: Improving Retention and Building Capacity (K. Lee, 2010)
• Turning Good Policies into Good Practice: Why is it so difficult? (L. Lee, W. Fauklner & C. Alemany, 2010)
• The Adolescent Girl Initiative (The World Bank, 2010)
• Is ICT Empowering Women in Egypt? An Empiracal Study. (M. Badran, 2010)
• Bangladesh: Young People and the Use of Technology (T. Mehdi, 2009) in The Young Champions for Education: South Asia UNGEI Regional Consultation
• Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda (Center for Global Development, 2008)
• Women Hold Up Half the Sky (Goldman Sachs, 2008)

Health:

• Improving Adolescent Girls’ Health: Q&A with Ruth Levine, (The Center for Global Development, 2009)

Education:

• VIDEO: Connect the Dots (10×10, 2011)
• New Lessons: The Power of Educating Adolescent Girls (Population Council, 2009)
• Girls’ Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth (The World Bank, 2008)

Adolescent Girls:

• VIDEO: The Clock is Ticking (The Nike Foundation, 2010)
• Because I am a Girl: The state of the world’s girls (Plan Canada, 2010)
• Because I am a Girl: Girls in the global economy (Plan Canada, 2009)
• VIDEO: The Girl Effect (The Nike Foundation, 2008)
• Global Maps of Adolescent Girls (Girls Discovered website)

Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth:

• World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development (World Bank, 2011)
• Parliamentarians Ask G8 to Focus on Women (A.D. McKenzie, 2011)
• The Global Gender Gap Report (World Economic Forum, 2010)
• Empowering Girls through legal protection strategies in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Liberia (International Development Law Organization, 2010)
• The Millennium Development Goals Report (United Nations, 2009)
• Gender equality, poverty and economic growth (Gender and Development Group, 2007)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (United Nations, 1979)

The Commoditization of Girls and Women:

• In Focus: Child Marriage (Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2011)
• Too Young to Wed: The secret world of child brides (C. Gorney, 2011)
• US should stop criminalizing sex trafficking victims (M.S. Saar, 2011)