Last September, in a small Parisian suburb called Montreuil, 24 students - made up mostly of women and people from underprivileged families - began a “boot camp.”  Six months later, they emerged as wizards.  Digital wizards![...]

Three self-taught web-entrepreneurs from low-income backgrounds have created the school they wish they had been able to attend themselves. Inspired by American “boot camps” offering intensive training programs, Simplon.co offers[...]

W4 is proud to feature the innovative work of Barefoot College—which, for over two decades now, has been harnessing rural women’s capabilities as change-makers in India!   In a remote village on the scorched plains of Rajasthan,[...]

A social business, as conceptualized by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, is a venture whose mission is to achieve a specific social or environmental goal. This might be to ensure safe drinking water for a community, to[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web interviews Valentina Monti, director and producer of “Girls on the Air” (2009), an eye-opening documentary portraying the story of Humaira Habib, founder of the first independent radio station, Radio Sahar, in[...]

We invite you to read Lindsey's original piece for Reuters (published February 8, 2010) and to follow the ensuing debate by clicking here: Glass ceiling remains unbreakable by all but a few