Resources

Economic Freedoms:

• Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Goldman Sachs, March 2008
• McKinsey & Company, How helping women helps business? January 2010
• The Business of Empowering Women, McKinsey & Company report
• Bridging the Gender Divide: How Technology Can Advance Women Economically, January 2010
• Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda, Center for Global Development, 2008
• The Adolescent Girl Initiative, the World Bank

Health:

• Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health, a publication of the Center for Global Development, 2009
• Improving Adolescent Girls’ Health: Q&A with Ruth Levine, the Center for Global Development, 2009
• Maternal Mortality: More women in India die from pregnancy than anywhere in the world.  Watch In Silence, a short film on Maternal Mortality in India.  Human Rights Watch, 2010
   
  

Education:

• Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women Initiative
• New Lessons: The Power of Educating Adolescent Girls, Population Council, 2009
• Girls’ Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth, The World Bank, 2008  
• Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls’ Education, 2006  
• The Academy for Educational Development (AED) Center for Gender Equity
  

Adolescent Girls:

• Because I am a Girl, Plan International 2009 Report, Executive Summary
• Girls Discovered, Global Maps of Adolescent Girls

Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth:

• MDG 2009 Report on MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women  For the full report
• UNIFEM Annual Report, 2008-2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability Full Report
• Gender equality, poverty and economic growth, paper for the World Bank
• The Global Gender Gap report 2009
• The World Bank Gender Stats
• The Gender Action Plan, The World Bank