In the Fight for Global Gender Equality, Women and Girls of all Ages and Abilities Must be Counted

By Kathy Greenlee, Assistant Secretary for Aging and Administrator of ACL

The importance of rigorous data collection to inform international development programs aimed at empowering women and girls can hardly be overstated. For these efforts to be successful, however, all women and girls, regardless of age or ability, must be included.

A recent report from the Thomson Reuters Foundation brought attention to the troubling absence of older women click here to read more

Contributed by Sandra Tucker, Executive Director of Sibling Tree.

Siblings spend more time with each other than they do with anyone else in their life and with summer quickly approaching, they’re about to spend even more time together. This is a great opportunity for siblings to create great memories together. My brother and I grew up in Arizona, where we spent our summers swimming, biking and playing in any mud we could find. As we got older, we started to volunteer at summer camps together. During one summer camp, my click here to read more