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[video] The Girl Effect


Think it’s hokey, doomed or otherwise flawed? Warren Buffet and Nike invested $100 million in it. I’d watch if I were you. And if you want to talk about joining and bandwagons? This would be a good one for doing both.

Major hattip to Human Folly. Visit The Girl Effect.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:40 pm June 5th, 2008 in Business, Culture, Economy, Education, Gender, Government, Health Care, Media, Politics, Social Issues, Women, Youth 

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5 Responses to “[video] The Girl Effect”

  1. 1 Jason Rowsey on June 5th, 2008 9:35 pm

    That’s awesome!

  2. 2 Eric on June 7th, 2008 11:57 am

    that’s great. why not invest in poor boys too? i don’t get that. let’s just invest in anyone in a developing country who wants to do all those things. why just girls?

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on June 8th, 2008 8:31 am

    Eric, you should ask Warren Buffet that question, but, without even googling or looking, I’d guess that someone somewhere demonstrated with statistics and examples that girls are somehow left behind in terms of education and when educated, contribute in a more economically healthy and sustainable way that grows rather than drains their communities.

    Sounds like a new cause for you if you find that boys have the same needs. Warrne’s pretty savvy.

  4. 4 Scott K on June 8th, 2008 9:17 am

    Like Eric, I found the use of ‘Girl’ a bit… grating.

    Though it seems to be deliberate, as the site talks lots about 14-18 year old females and the importance of thinking about them in their own right. And some of the stats on the site (like $0.005 of every aid dollar goes to girls, the leading cause of death worldwide for 15-19 year olds is pregnancy, investing in girls’ education helps later on) seem compelling.

    When girls and boys in developing countries are both below the line, but girls are way below boys, do you yank up them both, or yank up girls so they are the same level as boys, even if that’s still below where you want them both to be?

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on June 8th, 2008 6:27 pm

    Thanks for the comments, Scott. For sure, third world and/or developing countries, not to mention our own (!) country, have plenty of inequities to choose from that any one of us could select as a cause.

    I’m going to guess that since Buffett and Nike are giving such large amounts of money (relative anyway, not necessarily for them personally, if you will), someone had something pretty convincing.

    No doubt, there could always be more activism.

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