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Summary

The world is waking up to a new reality, a rising consciousness of  women's contribution to our shared progress. In the past, those who  have cared about improving the lives of girls and women have spoken  a language of fairness. While that language and that sentiment are  still relevant today, there is something even more compelling to be  said about women: women are the most consistently under-utilized  resource in just about every country in the world, and are vehicles  of transformational change. The Economist estimates that women have  contributed more to global GDP growth over the past decade than new  technology or emerging heavyweights India and China. The UN has  found that women reinvest up to 90 percent of their income in their  families and communities. Where we see an increase in women's  university enrollment rates, an increase in women's earnings,  improved maternal health and a reduction in violence against women,  we see more prosperous communities, better educated, healthier  families and the preservation of equal human rights.   There can be no question - women's progress is global progress,  and now is the opportune moment to put forward a concrete approach  for women's proven transformational style of leadership. Vital  Voices presents the unique model of women's leadership that  Vital Voices Global Partnership has identified in 14 years of  engaging and supporting a network of thousands of women leaders in  127 countries around the world.  Two years ago, Vital Voices  began actively incorporating the leadership model in the curricula  of international trainings and programs with emerging and  established women in our global network of leaders, and the  response has been overwhelming, leading to new regional chapters,  businesswomen's networks, mentoring clubs, and events around the  world.  The Vital Voices Leadership Model defines six characteristic  practices of a leader who has sustainable, transformative impact:  finding your voice, leading with purpose, crossing lines that  divide, going against the grain, paying it forward, and  understanding that leadership is not a destination. Four detailed  profiles of real women leaders will anchor chapters on each  practice, based on interviews with figures such as Aung San Suu  Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize  recipient, as well as many lesser-known stories of inspiring women  generating real change in their local communities. Throughout the  book, internationally recognizable, established women leaders (a  potential list includes Michele Bachelet, former president of  Chile, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia) will serve  as contributors. This theory of women's leadership will mobilize a  surge of women to realize the tenets of leadership, thereby  contributing to a transformative shift in global dynamic - social,  economic, political - that accelerates peace and prosperity in our  world.  Women are agents of progress, and their leadership is not  qualified by title, salary or social standing.  The women  featured in Vital Voices are leaders of a new order who are  changing the world, and the Vital Voices Leadership Model will  enhance the anyone's potential to lead the way to transformational  change.

Duration: about 7 hours (06:40:12)
Publishing date: 2020-07-20; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —

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