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Empowering women in business

Published October 12, 2008, 6:19 am, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat

WASHINGTON -- For years, global development experts have said that if young women received the same schooling as young men, their families would have a path out of poverty. Now, with countries across the developing world documenting rapid progress toward gender equality in education, experts are focusing on the next step: increasing economic...

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