"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)
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