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Passports to Progress: The Bottom Line: How Big Business Is Empowering Women and Girls

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The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) on March 7, 2012 hosted “The Bottom Line: How Big Business Is Empowering Women and Girls,” the fourth in its Passports to Progress discussion series. The conversation was moderated by PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff and included Darlene Daggett, former president of QVC and founder and executive director of Ikatu International; MaryEllen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking; Charlotte Oades, global director of women's economic empowerment, The Coca-Cola Company; and Jackie VanderBrug, managing director, Criterion Ventures and Women Effect Investments.

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