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The story of a young entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for women in her Kabul, Afghanistan, neighborhood during the Taliban years.
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Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program
Economic growth and development; development and the role of women; Afghanistan; women in Afghanistan; entrepreneurship and role of business environment; women and nation-building; military and economic development; economics and fiscal policy; maternal and reproductive health; role of international institutions in women's empowerment.
Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Women and Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy Program
The story of a young entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for women in her Kabul, Afghanistan, neighborhood during the Taliban years.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to put women and girls at the forefront of the new world order.
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Investment in maternal health in Afghanistan provides a cost-effective way to promote strategic U.S. foreign policy objectives. As part of a responsible drawdown, the United States should continue its commitments to improving maternal health programs.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses one Aghan woman's efforts to stop the reality that every 30 minutes, a pregnant woman dies in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon argues that unwanted attention on women's shelters in Afghanistan has sent a chill through women's rights supporters in Kabul and created an environment of both fear and defiance among shelter workers.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that while community support for girls education and women's right to work in Afghanistan is actually strong, the challenge for women lies in what comes next for the country.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the arrest of one of the men responsible for maiming an Afghan teenager.
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In a Newsweek interview, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses what the international community can do to support female entrepreneurs.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the success of Afghan women.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that even though Bibi Aisha, the Afghan teenager maimed by her Taliban-sympathizing husband and his family, has relocated to the United States, her story does not yet have a happy ending.
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As the United States backs reconciliation talks with the Taliban, many Afghan women fear a rollback of their rights. The international community must ensure that discussions of Afghanistan's future include its women, says CFR's Gayle Lemmon.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon argues that women are an untapped resource, and investment in women is critical to future growth.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the rise of raisin production in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the concern Afghan women have over losing their rights in post-war Afghanistan.
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Unless more investment is forthcoming, the MDG goals promoting gender equality and reducing maternal mortality may remain unmet, says CFR'S Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the advances made by Afghan women.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the benefits to women of the international community's presence in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the escape of a child bride in Afghanistan.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says the WikiLeaks cache highlighted the problem of police corruption in Afghanistan and asks if female officers could change the force's culture.
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CFR Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program and author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana.
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On the death of American diplomat Anne Smedinghoff in Afghanistan, Lemmon says to Andrea Mitchell on MSN that Smedinghoff's death is a blow to those fighting for Afghanistan to join the rest of the world and not slide back into civil war.
Speaking with Andrea Mitchell on MSN, Lemmon says that a growing number of people think that the way work is structured does not match the way America lives, and that recent decisions by major companies to rescind the right to work from home is tone deaf.
Lemmon argues on Rock Center with Brian Williams that "We're getting farther and farther from the war actually being waged in Afghanistan. And to make ourselves okay with this we make celebrities out of the men asked to lead these wars".
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon speaks about women entrepreneurs who are creating jobs against daunting obstacles, and calls on women to move beyond"micro hopes" and "micro ambitions."
