GUEST POST: Global Gender Gap Report

GUEST POST BY LAUREN SUPINA FARBER On Monday I had the opportunity to attend a panel discussion covering the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2011. The reports tracks the global gender gap and addresses with women and menchallenges and opportunities in...

Rock the Casbah Rocks

I loved Robin Wrights new book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion in the Islamic World.(And thanks to The Clash for inspiring the title!) I was also lucky enough to hear Wright speak at an event sponsored by the Women’s Foreign Policy Group. The book couldnt...

Hearts & Minds

I spoke this past weekend at a fascinating all day conference of Army civil affairs personnel who will soon be deploying to Afghanistan. They were so interested in learning about how to think about engaging civilians, particularly women, and also in my impressions and...

What a Weekend!

I just returned from Kabul where I worked on a project tothink through increasing womens participation in the 2013 elections there. So, I wasnt able to attend the Little Rock event this weekend celebrating Bill Clintons announcement 20 years ago that he would run for...

GUEST POST: The Amazing Leymah Gbowee

GUEST POST BY LAUREN SUPINA FARBER Recently, Vital Voices hosted an informal talk by Leymah Gbowee in honor of her memoir: Mighty Be our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. If you haven’t heard of Ms. Gbowee, she is an African peace...

From Beijing to San Francisco

In 1995, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton riveted the world at that years Beijing World Conference on Women. She made a compelling case for all of us particularly governments to address the issues important to women and girls, and made the tag line womens rights...

GUEST POST: 7 Billion and Counting

A Guest Post by Lauren Supina Farber On October 31st, the world’s population will reach 7 billion. With this historical milestone in sight, UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) has issued a call-to-action to renew our commitment to work for a healthier, more...

Quotas for Corporate Boards?

Really very interesting conference at SAIS Hopkins on Friday re women and corporate board diversity. Lots to think about, especially the fairly slow progress of women serving on boards. One of the speakers noted that at the rate we are going it will take until 2070...