Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist, writer, and researcher. She is the author of two New York Times best sellers, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, published in March 2011 by HarperCollins, and Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, published in 2015 by HarperCollins. Lemmon is also the author of Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage, published in 2014 by the Council on Foreign Relations, where she is...
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I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.
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My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.
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I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was.
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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
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Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
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The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
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Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
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The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
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Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
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Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
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A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
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When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.