Founding a movement
Subtitle: Women's World Banking, 1975-1990
By: Michaela Walsh ; with Shamina de Gonzaga and Lilia C. Clemente
Contributors: Gonzaga, Shamina de, author; Clemente, Lilia C., author
Publisher: Cosimo Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781616407353; 9781616407179
Subjects: History; Women-owned business enterprises; Finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Women's World Banking
Other titles: Women's World Banking, 1975-1990
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Kansas City to Mexico --; title: From inspiration to reality --; title: Amsterdam 1980 : Women's World Banking takes shape --; title: Women's World Banking gets down to work --; title: Letting the flowers bloom : a multitrack structure evolves --; title: Bilderberg : building a global network --; title: Regional leadership grows stronger --; title: Coming to maturity --; title: End of an era --; title: Getting there from nowhere  -- by Lilia Clemente; title: Reflections.