Monday, November 27, 2017

RWANDA - Empowering Women

"This all-women’s college is training Rwanda’s future leaders" PBS NewsHour 11/24/2017

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  The first all-female college in Rwanda is making strides in empowering women from all backgrounds to become the nation’s next business leaders, part of an effort to leave behind an image of a violent country, wracked by genocide.  At the Akilah Institute, students prepare for well-paying jobs and financial independence and learn gender equality.  Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.

Fred de Sam Lazaro (NewsHour):  But the statistic that makes this country unique in the world reflects the role of women in all of this.  Half of this country’s Supreme Court justices are female, and so are two-thirds of its members of parliament.

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