The strategy consulting firm, Mckinsey & Company, has just published an article entitled “How Helping Women Helps Business” in the January edition of its McKinsey Quaterly magazine. Given our work with UNIFEM-UK we thought that our readers would be interested in taking a look at the article.
Something to watch out for: the article highlights the fantastic work that Standard Chartered Bank (one of our clients) is doing with its women empowerment programme, GOAL.
You can get the McKinsey report here:
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/How_helping_women_helps_business_2513
To learn more about GOAL and UNIFEM-UK go to:
http://goalgirlsindia.blogspot.com/
As can be seen from the work in Russia described on our website, this was very much the case in our leverage of a community back for the Tomsk initiative, where more than 80% of the 10,000 micro enterprises created were started by women.
This was proof of concept for the profit-for-purpose apporach to social enterprise we conceived in 1996.