How does globalization impact women?  Ask Elaine Zuckerman, founder and President of Gender Action.

Elaine founded Gender Action in 2002 to ensure that the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) --especially the World Bank -- promote gender equality and women's rights in their worldwide investments.

Within two years, Gender Action has built a track record of promoting economic opportunities for women in World Bank projects around the world. The World Bank is the largest public source of development financing on the planet, investing around $20 billion each year.

Trillions of dollars of World Bank investments over the last 60 years have done too little to reduce poverty, especially that of poor women and girls. Females constitute over 70 percent of the world’s poor and poverty continues to feminize. Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to ensuring that the World Bank and other IFI's promote women's rights and gender equality in their investments.

Gender Action’s vision is a World Bank and other IFIs with mandatory gender policies and strategies that are consistently implemented -- increasing women’s empowerment, ensuring their human rights and ending the feminization of and eradicating poverty.

In October 2003, Three Guineas awarded Gender Action a two-year $60,000 grant to help the organization establish an office and raise additional essential funds.

To read about Gender Action's influential programs and publications, please visit: http://www.genderaction.org/ or contact Elaine Zuckerman President and Founder, at elainez@genderaction.org, or (202) 234 7722.


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