Women are the biggest economic growth engines of the next decade.

Gender equity is serious business. Our investment in women includes the following major initiatives:

The female representation of millionaires is even higher. There are many reasons for the success of female entrepreneurs in China, but chief among these are:

• Teaming with the World Economic Forum to create the Repository of Successful Practices for Gender Parity, which brings together leaders who have taken successful actions toward gender equality in their organizations, countries and communities
• Participating in The Third Billion Campaign, a global alliance of corporations, governments, nonprofit organizations, academics, foundations and individuals dedicated to helping to prepare and enable one billion underprivileged women to participate in the global economy by 2025
• Participating in U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership, a State Department initiative bringing together successful businesswomen from around the world to advise the US government on women's global economic empowerment
• Running the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ program, which identifies and celebrates high-potential female entrepreneurs and provides them with personalized business insights as well as access to strategic networks of established entrepreneurs, advisors and investors (average annual revenue growth for women entrepreneurs since joining the Entrepreneurial Winning Women program: 49%)
• Supporting the global expansion of WeConnect International, helping women entrepreneurs access the global marketplace
• Sponsoring Endeavor, a not-for-profit organization that works to identify high-growth innovative companies in rapid-growth markets to improve and grow their businesses

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