by Stephenie Foster | Apr 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last week was Vital Voices amazing 10th annual celebration of women leaders across the globe. One of the five honorees, Kah Walla, is a remarkable businesswoman, strategist, political activist and now candidate for president of Cameroon. I first met Kah several years...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
I just took a class on women and development at George Washington University. Not really. I did attend an event at George Washington Universitys Elliot School of International Affairs on April 14, which brought together five experts to discuss the implementation of...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 16, 2011 | Women in Europe/former Soviet Union
The war in Bosnia seems distant, but when I visited Bosnia Herzegovina last year, it felt close to the surface. Last week, I went to the screening of a film, Back to Bosnia, made by a young Bosnian-American filmmaker about her familys return to Banja Luka to reclaim...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 16, 2011 | Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Last week was Vital Voices amazing 10th annual celebration of women leaders across the globe. One of the five honorees, Kah Walla, is a remarkable businesswoman, strategist, political activist and now candidate for president of Cameroon. I first met Kah several years...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
April 11 was Equal Pay Day. Each year, Equal Pay Day reflects how far into the current year women must work to match what men earned in the previous year. While women have come far, there is still far to go. When the Equal Pay Act was enacted in 1963, women earned 59...
