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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In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
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I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
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In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
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Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
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My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
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The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.