Women for Integration
The past decade has proven again and again that empowering women worldwide holds the key to solving massive, seemingly intractable issues that have otherwise stymied policymakers. The tensions and conflicts around immigration in Europe could be yet another issue for which the empowerment of women holds a hidden solution.
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COPENHAGEN – The past decade has proven again and again that empowering women worldwide holds the key to solving many seemingly intractable issues that have otherwise stymied policymakers. Poverty in the developing world seemed ineradicable until micro-lenders saw millions of low-income, destitute women as potential entrepreneurs. Involving African women in decision-making about crop production turns out to enable environmentally sustainable farming practices. Runaway population growth becomes controllable when women have access to literacy and business opportunities as well as to contraception.