Conversations with Women on Leadership and Social Transformation

"In their own words, these women talk about leadership and particularly women's practice of that leadership for social change."

Excerpt: "To support women's leadership, they point to the need for: Building an enabling environment for the articulation of women's visions of development and rights at a global level; Supporting coalition building within the women's movement and across women's organizations as well as coalitions between the women's movement and other social change movements; Challenging power structures and resource control in the political, economic and social arenas and in all types of organizations that keep women and women's interests out; Supporting the emergence and sustenance of women leaders at all levels for a transformative social change agenda; and Building accountability mechanisms across institutional arenas for women's interests."

Includes conversations with the following women leaders:

• Ela Bhat (India)
• Wu Qing (China)
• Soledad Larrain (Chile)
• Cecilia Lopez (Columbia)
• Marta Lamas (Mexico)
• Xie Lihua (China)
• Suzanne Pharr (USA)
• Virginia Vargas (Peru)
• Sueli Carneiro (Brazil)
• Audrey Johnson (USA)
• Olive Shisana (South Africa)
• Erna Witoelar (Indonesia)
• Gloria Bodner (Argentina)
• Jihad Abu Zneid (Palestine)
• Lucy Nkya (Tanzania)
• Nguyean Tho Oanh (Vietnam)
• Jirina Siklova (Czech Republic)
• Mairo Bello (Nigeria)