August 2009
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Women's Equality Day: Are we there yet? | Women's...
Below, we offer two very different commentaries for the day: first, a celebratory valediction from a rising Army leader, and then a reminder from 9 to 5 that we’re not quite out of the placard stage yet. via womensvoicesforchange.org
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G20 not expected to cap and tax bank bonuses |...
However, the scope of steps to curb bankers’ bonuses may be limited by the difficulty of drafting watertight rules and also by fears that countries taking tough action may suffer a competitive disadvantage versus other financial centers.
G20 finance ministers meet in London on Sept 4-5 to prepare the ground for a summit of the group’s leaders in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh on...
Hillary Clinton on A New Gender Agenda
Clinton: We are having as a signature issue the fact that women and girls are a core factor in our foreign policy. If you look at what has to be done, in some societies, it is a different problem than in others. In some of the societies where women are deprived of political and economic rights, they have access to education and health care. In other societies, they may have been given the vote,...