Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share
