Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Reaching the Tipping Point

Chris feels that we are near the tipping point to making a real difference in countries like Malawi. And here she’s referring not only to food production but beyond that to the very real issue of discrimination. When men witness women creating profitable businesses like poultry farms, they begin to see those women in a different light. When women work side by side with men digging fish ponds that will become their future, both sides develop a respect for the other. And as discrimination declines, violence against women does as well.

Just as Lester is willing to do whatever it takes to help the women of her village progress, the women raising chicken and fish understand that they can make a lifelong difference for ...