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EMPOWERING WOMEN is good for business why?

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Over the last several decades, it has become accepted wisdom that improving the status of women is one of the most critical levers of international development. When women are educated and can earn and control income, a number of good results follow: infant mortality declines, child health and nutrition improve, agricultural productivity rises, population growth slows, economies expand, and cycles of poverty are broken.

But the challenges remain dauntingly large. In the Middle East, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, large and persistent gender gaps in access to education, health care, technology, and income -- plus a lack of basic rights and pervasive violence against women -- keep women from being fully productive members of society. Entrenched gender discrimination remains a defining characteristic of life for the majority of the world's bottom two billion people, helping sustain the gulf between the most destitute and everyone else who shares this planet.

Narrowing that gulf demands more than the interest of the foreign aid and human rights communities, which, to date, have carried out the heavy lifting of women's empowerment in developing countries, funding projects such as schools for girls and microfinance for female entrepreneurs. It requires the involvement of the world's largest companies. Not only does the global private sector have vastly more money than governments and nongovernmental organizations, but it can wield significant leverage with its powerful brands and by extending promises of investment and employment. Some companies already promote initiatives focused on women as part of their corporate social-responsibility programs -- in other words, to burnish their images as good corporate citizens. But the truly transformative shift -- both for global corporations and for women worldwide -- will occur when companies understand that empowering women in developing economies affects their bottom lines.

The majority of global population growth in the coming decades will occur in those countries where gender disparities are the greatest and where conservative religious traditions and tribal customs work against women's rights. As multinational corporations search

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Governments and international organizations recognize that empowering women in the developing world is a catalyst for achieving a range of policy and development goals. It is time for multinational corporations to come to the same realization -- funding education and training female business leaders is good for business.

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here is the video telling why women make best business leaders as they have better communication skills than men, are of high intelligence and took more initiative than men.

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors telling about some successful women in their companies who contribute their great efforts.

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

Step inside the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal tonight and you'll see a lot of hurried faces peeking at the ceiling. There is the usual buzz of commuters rushing to make their evening trains, but even the seasoned travelers here are looking up. Babies stare. Military guards on duty in fatigues catch a quick glance. They're checking out the faces and names of 12 women in science and technology being honored with their own projections on the ceiling of the iconic train hub. The three-evening show is being sponsored by General Electric this week (September 19-21.) It's GE's attempt to give commuters a glimpse at a few of the "unseen stars" of science, as they're calling them. And for many New York commuters, it's a brief, welcome shakeup to the evening rush routine.

So who made the cut for that storied, starry ceiling? Here's the rundown of the impressive women floating in light at 42nd Street tonight:

Vera Cooper Rubin's research in the 1960s pioneered a whole new field of scientific study: She confirmed the existence of dark matter. Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle, put it this way in Astronomy Magazine in 2016: "The existence of dark matter has utterly revolutionized our concept of the universe and our entire field; the ongoing effort to understand the role of dark matter has basically spawned entire subfields within astrophysics and particle physics at this point." 'Nuff said.

Megan Smith - The First woman appointed as United States Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Smith worked in the White House from 2014-2017. Before that, she was vice president of business development at Google, where she spent more than a decade. She told Forbes she's honored to be on the ceiling at Grand Central this week, and that the GE project is "a big deal:"

"Women of all races and men of color have been big contributors to science and technology and innovators at the most elite levels, we just... lost the stories," Smith said on opening night. She hopes the ceiling projections will inspire commuters: "To have it at the hub [Grand Central], here in New York, where everyone is coming through... and having that sort of flow into their thinking: How might I use science and technology like these people, to solve the challenges that I'm facing?"

Sossina Hale developed the first solid-acid fuel cell. Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electricity, and are already being used commercially in low-emission vehicles and portable power banks.

Hadiyah-Nicole Green wants to create a better kind of cancer treatment. With a $1.1 million federal grant in hand, she's pursuing clinical trials for a laser-based nanotechnology cancer treatment. She hopes it will effectively eradicate tumors, while avoiding some of the common side effects of more traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Danielle Merfield - GE was bound to include a few of their own. Merfield is Vice President of GE Global Research where she leads research into how to help "machines talk to each other" as GE puts it, with applications for aviation, healthcare and energy.

Sudha Maniam - Another of GE's own, Maniam is Technology Leader of Clinical Systems and Signal Processing at GE Global Research. She's studying new ways to build medical devices. In 2000, she co-patented a new and improved detector system for cardiac MRIs (heart disease imaging.)

Kira Radinsky - When she was in her 20s, Radinsky created software that can mine historical data and news reports topredict global disasters and disease outbreaks with ~70-90% accuracy. Today, she directs data science at eBay.

Laurie Leshin - The geochemist has worked for both former President George H.W. Bush and former President Obama. Leshin first served on President H.W. Bush's commission for space exploration, before becoming a senior manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Today, she is the first female president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Oh, and she's been marveling at Martian rocks since she was 10.

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built her own aircraft at 13, and piloted it solo when she was 16. Today, she's pursuing her PhD in theoretical high energy physics at Harvard University. Nbd.

Neri Oxman created the field of 'material ecology.' She makes bright, textured art and architecture that draw from biology, computing, and materials engineering. In 2015, her team at MIT created the first 3-D printer for optically transparent glass, which they described as a kind of "molten glass sewing machine."

For more of the best science & technology coverage, follow me on Twitter @hilarx.

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Here's Why They Put A Bunch Of Women On The Ceiling At Grand Central Terminal

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Step inside the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal tonight and you'll see a lot of hurried faces peeking at the ceiling. There is the usual buzz of commuters rushing to make their evening trains, but even the seasoned travelers here are looking up.

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women are now holding more positions than men globally, as in Philippines, Brazil and Russia the % is higher(above global average) as compare to other countries like India, Japan, and Germany etc have the % below the global average.

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24% of women are on senior positions globally, 63% of them are as CFO in China, where as south Africa is planning to have 29% of more women, and in latin women who are graduated are only 13%. Still some countries are in process to break the glass ceiling.

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This progress graph actually satisfies me a lot, although the recent graph is not been out because the graph is calculated after every 6 years and I hope the % which has gone to 53.23% in 2013 should increase to 70% in 2019.

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which countries are good and bad for women to work?

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MARCH 8th is International Women's Day, a date designated by the UN to celebrate and advocate for women's rights. To provide a benchmark for progress on gender equality in the labour market, The Economist has published its fifth annual "glass-ceiling index". It combines data on higher education, workforce participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity and paternity rights, business-school applications and representation in senior jobs into a single measure of where women have the best-and worst-chances of equal treatment in the workplace. Each country's score is a weighted average of its performance on ten indicators.

The overall picture painted by the data is that the long trend of improving conditions for working women has flatlined within the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries. In 2005, 60% of women were in the labour force; ten years later, this ratio had edged up only slightly to 63% (it was 80% for men in both years). With relatively few women climbing the ranks, and strong old-boys' networks helping men reach the top, female representation in well-paid and high-status jobs is closer to a third than half. And the gender wage gap-male minus female wages, divided by male wages-is still around 15%, meaning women as a group earn 85% of what men do.

These broad averages conceal wide variation between countries. The Nordic countries clearly lead the world on gender equality at work. The top four positions this year belong to Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland, just as they did in 2016 (though Sweden and Norway did switch places). Women in these countries are more likely than men to have a university degree and be in the labour force. They make up 30-44% of company boards, compared with an average of 20% across the OECD. And voluntary political-party gender quotas mean that women are well-represented in parliaments. In October, women won a record 48% of the seats in Iceland's lower house. At around two-fifths, Scandinavian women's share of parliamentary seats ranks in the top 10% globally.

At the other end of the index are Japan, Turkey and South Korea. Women make up only around 15% of parliaments in these countries, and are underrepresented in management positions and on company boards. In South Korea, just 2% of corporate directors are female. Similarly, fewer women than men have completed tertiary education and are part of the labour force. Only 35% of Turkish women are working or looking for work, and a mere 16% have graduated from university.

Progress in gender equality has a tendency to build upon itself. In Iceland, which currently provides the most equal working environment for women according to our index, female workers staged a protest last October in which they marched out of their offices early to call attention to the country′s 14% gender pay gap. If Japanese women were to do likewise, they would be leaving much earlier.

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The best and worst places to be a working woman

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MARCH 8th is International Women's Day, a date designated by the UN to celebrate and advocate for women's rights. To provide a benchmark for progress on gender equality in the labour market, The Economist has published its fifth annual "glass-ceiling index".

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women face so much problems in finding the right jobs for them because they have to play 2 roles in life with family and with work, so they look for flexibility and suitable environment, and this reason afraid the businesses to hire women as they have to do lots of adjustments.

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Women often face hurdles in finding jobs that their male counterparts don't, for a variety of reasons. These include everything from concern that women will need to take time off for maternity leave ...

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women leave jobs in high % as compare to them just because either they face any sexual assault, or do not allow women to participate in social events etc. But as per the survey the result is been out, lets see

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Men continue to outnumber women in senior leadership roles around the world - but reports suggest this isn't the only inequality problem in the workplace.

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still women are facing problems in their jobs although some strategies are been built up but still more to be built up.

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euronews right on - Breaking the glass ceiling

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http://www.euronews.com/ Only 3% of chief executives in big European companies are women, 14% sit as company board members. The situation is slowly changing, however the European Union believes at this current rate, it will take 50 years to achieve gender balanced boardrooms. The "glass ceiling", which symbolises the barrier preventing women reaching top positions still exists all over Europe.

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many countries like India, Germany, Japan etc need to do something for women to make them stand on equal level as men are. But women should not be hired because they are women, they should be hired as per their talent and skills. all we want is remove discrimination and give chance to women also. as per the survey it is been proved that the corporations/business having men and women both working together are the most successful corporations/business.
women are future, do not let them lack behind, help them to prove and show themselves to the world and make a better world.