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By Ruthie Ackerman for World Policy Journal
Moderator: Diane Sawyer, anchor ABC’s Good Morning America
Panelists:
Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs
Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International
Rex W. Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil
Melanne Verveer, first-ever ambassador-at-large for women’s issues in the U.S. State Department
Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank
The Nike Foundation calls it the "Girl Effect”: give a girl the opportunity to change her world and she will change the world of those around her as well. (Watch the video on YouTube and you can see for yourself.)
This not only works in business, but in preventing the spread of terrorism as well, explained Melanne Verveer, at the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative’s (CGI) morning session, moderated by Diane Sawyer. The morning panel was the CGI model at its best, a mix of public- and private-sector organizations, which seems to work best in tackling the world’s problems. “The most dangerous places in the world are those places where women are put down in the greatest way,” Verveer said. “Women are on the frontlines of moderation.”
Not only are women important to maintain national security, said Zainab Salbi, but that involving women in peace processes helps to keep conflict at bay for longer. But why suddenly does there seem to be a flood of interest in what has been traditionally thought of as “women’s issues”?
