Six Ways Women Add Value to Business

  • Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
  • Publication Type: Blog Post
  • Date: July 7, 2015
  • Team: Erin Markel
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What’s all this fuss about the business case for women’s economic empowerment?

Through research under the USAID-funded Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project, we have found that implementers who successfully persuade businesses to adopt inclusive business practices to empower women often focus on “making the business case.” They also stress the importance of being able to speak the language of the private sector.

Erin Markel, Principal Consultant with MSA, has recently written a blog post on this topic on Marketlinks, which gives a summary of our LEO paper on the business case for empowering women. We hope that you will take a look!

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