Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

Having more women in leadership helps our economy grow strong and our communities become even more vibrant.

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.

Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

It seems to me that your country will have to take advantage of the brains and the education and the skills and the capacities of women in order to be what you ought to be and do what you have to do.

Paying women equally for comparable work done by men would be the biggest economic stimulus that this country could possibly have … $200 billion dollars into the economy every year and would be way more effective than propping up banks on Wall Street because this money would get spent and not put into Swiss bank accounts.

Empowering women leads to a more inclusive growth of society and the nation.

Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.