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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The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
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The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.
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In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
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It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
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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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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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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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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.