Helene D. Gayle
Helene D. Gayle
Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., is CEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global and social challenges. McKinsey Social Initiative's first program, Generation, addresses the problem of youth unemployment, with programs in five countries--India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States--and a goal of connecting one million young people with skills and jobs in five years. Previously, Dr. Gayle was president and CEO of CARE USA, a member...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.
There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.
No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.
You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.