Help Women Grow Globally: Pass the GROWTH Act!

by Alex DiBranco · 2010-03-02 13:03:00 UTC
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Battling the forces of sexism and empowering women is one of the best ways to bring everybody out of poverty around the world. That's why Congress needs to get in touch with its inner gardener and pass the GROWTH Act immediately. It's even bipartisan, so everybody gets to feel special!

The GROWTH (Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive) Act would direct U.S. policies, trade, and other endeavors around the world to play a role in fertilizing the playing field women struggle on. For starters, it would provide a whole lot of women with a bunch of little loans that will enable them to launch their own businesses, gaining power and financial security, which they've been shown to invest in the health, education, and, hence, upward mobility of their kids. (Yes, I'm talking about the wonders of microfinance.) And, to make sure that women actually get to keep these benefits to provide for themselves and their families, the GROWTH Act focuses on improving women's land and property rights. Mine!

For the women who don't have a tiny entrepreneur inside them just waiting to break out, but work hard every day in a poorly paying job, the GROWTH Act will look to grow their wages and working conditions into a beautiful liveable blossom. Eliminating poverty is more beautiful than any flower could be, but it needs a green thumb (ahem ... and wallet) and some TLC.

Tell Congress to sow the seeds that will lift families out of poverty by passing the GROWTH Act.

Photo credit: Hamed Saber

Alex DiBranco is a Change.org Editor who has worked for the Nation, Political Research Associates, and the Center for American Progress. She is now based in New York City.
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