Founding a Movement captures the impossible dream realized by a visionary group of women who met in Mexico City at the first United Nations World Conference on Women in 1975, and then, together, created the first global women's microfinance network. Drawing on more than 80 interviews, Michaela Walsh recounts her extraordinary path as the founding president of Women's World Banking and brings alive the perseverance, confidence, and shared risk-taking that propelled the movement forward. This book illuminates the birth of a culture of trust—from Kenya to Colombia to the Philippines—where women entrepreneurs could learn from and teach each other to gain control over their economic destinies.
In Walsh's words,
Founding a Movement "shines a light on the value that women contribute through work, and when they support one another, to become full participants in the economy through access to financial institutions and services, and everything that goes with that access."
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EconomicsTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- With Deep Gratitude
- About This Book
- Abbreviations And Acronyms
- Prologue
- Timeline
- 1 From Kansas City to Mexico City
- 2 From Inspiration to Reality
- 3 Amsterdam 1980: Women’s World Banking Takes Shape
- 4 Women’s World Banking Gets Down to Work
- 5 Letting the Flowers Bloom: A Multitrack Structure Evolves
- 6 Bilderberg: Building a Global Network
- 7 Regional Leadership Grows Stronger
- 8 Coming to Maturity
- 9 End of an Era
- 10 Getting There from Nowhere (by Lilia Clemente)
- 11 Reflections
- Notes
- Aids and Documents
- SWWB Organizing Committees and Working Groups, 1975-1980
- SWWB Global and Trustees Meetings, 1980-1990
- SWWB Trustees, 1980-1990
- SWWB Consultants, Volunteers, Staff, and Interns, 1980-1990
- SWWB Affiliates and Affiliates-in-Formation, 1975-1990
- Key to Acronyms, by Chapter
- About the Author
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