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On June 20th and 21st, 2011, The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) hosted Democracy that Delivers for Women, an international conference on women’s empowerment around the world. Dr. Suzanne Garment moderated this session about donor approaches to women’s empowerment with Dr. Virginia M. Seitz, Senior Director for Social and Gender Assessment at the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Shelly Porges, Senior Advisor of the Global Women’s Business Initiative at the US Department of State; and Shari Berenbach, Director of the Microenterprise Office at the US Agency for International Development. Democracy that Delivers for Women explored key aspects of women’s political and economic participation, as well as how these themes are interrelated throughout other aspects of women’s empowerment. To learn more about the conference, please visit www.democracythatdelivers.com.

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www.bbc.co.uk The first of two provocative programmes presented by newsreader and mum-of-three Sophie Raworth, and reporter and father-of-three Justin Rowlatt. In a competitive mood from the off, Justin and Sophie explore the thorny issue of what we really think of women at work. Why is it that men still dominate the top jobs? Can women have it all? Has gender equality gone too far? And what – if anything – is holding women back?

It might be silly to be asking this now, considering I’ll be a senior in high school this year and I would like to have a family in 10-15 years, but how do successful working women balance their family and career? Especially women in male dominated fields, how do you continue to do well at work and still manage to raise a happy family?

I’ve been thinking about becoming a doctor and I do not want to choose either career or family. I would love to have both.