I was thinking about Syria yesterday, mostly because I heard Seymour Hersh on Fresh Air, but also because of this interesting piece  (also yesterday) on PRI about women’s rights in Syria:
Women in Syria: Public Radio International
The piece caught my ear as it’s premise is that Syrian women enjoy quite a lot of freedoms outside the [...]

Beth recommended I watch this CNN piece about women and economic recovery. Jacki Zehner of the Women’s Funding Network supports our assertion that women are the key to economic growth because women invest in their families and communities more reliably than men.
Check it out:
Embedded video from CNN Video

Hi, we are Global Sistergoods and we are here to recruit you.
We entered StartUp Nation’s “Leading Moms in Business” contest, and we really, really want you to vote for us. We are not sure if we win anything. In fact, we probably don’t. But we are kind of competitive. Maybe really competitive. Just the *idea* [...]

The United States Peace Corps was established today, March 1, in 1961 by Executive Order 10924. John F. Kennedy Jr., first proposed the idea during a campaign stop at the University of Michigan, asking students to give two years of their lives to help people in the developing world. Since 1960, more than 195,000 people [...]

We talk a lot about women’s economic and political environment on this blog. (And rightfully so. It’s incredibly important.) But, we less frequently discuss the other central principle to Global Sistergoods: fair trade.
While immersed in an unrelated research project, I came across the following in the article Rediscovering Social Innovation in the Stanford Social Innovation [...]