Benefits Quote by Kofi Annan

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

— Kofi Annan

Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs, private-sector institutions.

— Julia Gillard

Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for…

— Anonymous

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you…

— Richard E. Robbins

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her…

— Isabel Allende

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of…

— Dee Dee Myers

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

— Kofi Annan

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and…

— Hillary Clinton

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women…

— Kofi Annan

“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them a basic…

— Elizabeth Gilbert