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Add Your Voice to Chelsea Clinton’s ‘No Ceilings’ Survey

Posted in Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, Uncategorized, Women's Issues, Women's Rights, tagged Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, Women's Issues, Women's rights on August 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

You probably are familiar with the No Ceilings Full Participation Project that Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are running through the Clinton Foundation. Chelsea would like feedback from you. She has sent out this survey and would like your participation.

In 1995 the world came together and called for “the full and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic, social, and cultural life.” Nearly 20 years later, not a single country has achieved this goal, not even the United States.

As many of you know, No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project at the Clinton Foundation, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, has started gathering information and data on the status of women and girls around the world. Our goal is to use data to understand the gains and gaps women have made in achieving full participation over the last 20 years.

While data is critical to our project, your stories and experiences are also essential to understanding the challenges we face. We created the No Ceilings Survey to help us understand what women and girls are experiencing in their own communities and countries.

Take the No Ceilings Survey.

Data combined with and your voices and opinions will help inform a 21st century policy agenda to advance the full participation of women and girls globally. In order to understand where we need to go, we must understand how far we have come and the challenges that women and girls still face around the world today. I know that together we can break through the remaining ceilings that limit the full potential of women and girls and I hope you will lend your voice to this project. Thanks for your consideration.

Take the No Ceilings Survey.

Thank you,

Chelsea Clinton

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Tweets from Hillary Clinton: Bill Clinton in India for #NoCeilings

Posted in Bill Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, Uncategorized, Willam Jefferson Clinton, tagged Asia, Bill Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, India, No Ceilings, Twitter on July 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Hillary ClintonVerified account ‏@HillaryClinton

So great to see @billclinton taking #NoCeilings on the road to India to talk about women in the economy. pic.twitter.com/EAit4Yaxxe

More about President Clinton’s travel to the Asia/Pacific region can be accessed here. >>>>

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Chelsea Clinton to host No Ceilings Google Hangout this Friday

Posted in Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, No Ceilings, Uncategorized, tagged Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, No Ceilings on May 28, 2014| 1 Comment »

Friday, May 30, 2014
10 AM EDT

On Friday, May 30, join Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, Rebecca Winthrop, Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, and Kennedy Odede, Founder of Shining Hope for Communities, for an online discussion on the state of global education for girls.

We have seen the threat against girls’ education made real again, this time in the horrific kidnapping in Nigeria. Through this conversation, No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, will highlight the gains we have made in girls’ education around the world over the past twenty years and the gaps that still remain, as well as discuss policies and programs that are working to improve education for girls.

You are critical to this conversation on why girls’ education is essential to communities, economies, and societies. RSVP to watch the Google Hangout live and contribute to our discussion by submitting your questions.

We hope you’ll join us on Friday at 10 AM.

Sincerely,
The No Ceilings Team

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Clinton Foundation’s #NoCeilings on #BringBackOurGirls

Posted in Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights, No Ceilings, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, tagged #BringBackOurGirls, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights, kidnapped girls, Nigeria, Nigerian Schoolgirls, No Ceilings, Women's rights on May 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Why Education Matters

The kidnapping of over 300 teenage girls at Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in Nigeria has captivated attention and headlines across the world, inspiring outrage, compassion, and calls to action. The girls were taken by Boko Haram, whose very name declares that education is sinful.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the girls, their families and those working to bring them home safely.

These devastating acts reflect a much larger problem – girls are being targeted and threatened with violence, kidnapping and more just for seeking an education.

That’s why the global community must stay committed to helping protect and promote girls’ education around the world so that every girl has the opportunity to live up to her full potential.

The numbers tell a hopeful story about progress in girls’ access to education over the past two decades. Here are some important facts and statistics about girls’ education in Nigeria and across the globe, and why protecting schools like Chibok is vital to girls, women, and the world.

FACTS: Why Education Matters

The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2013 shows that where the gender gap is closest to being closed in a range of areas—including access to education, health survivability, economic participation, and political participation—countries and economies are more competitive and prosperous.

Half of the reductions of child mortality between 1970 and 1990 can be attributed to increased education for women of reproductive age.*

A 2011 World Bank report found that investing in girls’ education and opportunities in Nigeria and 13 other developing nations could increase a country’s gross domestic product by 1.2% in a single year.

A 2002 study on the effect of education on average wages estimates that primary school education increases girls’ earnings by 5 to 15 % over their lifetimes.

FACTS: The Gaps that Remain

Girls and women continue to make up the largest share of the world’s illiterate population (61.3%), and literacy rates in Nigeria hover around 50 to 60%.

Gender gaps are especially wide in places like Sub-Saharan Africa, where 40.1 % of girls and 33.1 % of boys are not enrolled in secondary schools like Chibok. This translates into 11.8 million girls in the region not accessing the education they need to attend university, find work, achieve financial independence, and contribute to a growing economy.**

Girls also face early marriage as barrier to education, and should the girls from Chibok be sold into slavery or forced marriages, their chances of achieving their dreams will be all but dashed. In a study conducted in Kenya, researchers found that a marriage partner is associated with a 78 % increased risk of termination of secondary schooling.

Globally, there are 37.4 million girls not enrolled in lower secondary school compared to 34.2 million boys, a gap of 3.2 million.***

It’s an unfortunate reality that it takes an act of courage to seek an education in places like Nigeria. But the girls at Chibok, despite the threats, pursued an education because they and their families understood just how valuable it is. Their resolve will set an example for generations to come and exemplifies the importance of working for the advancement of girls and women across the world so that every girl has a chance to go to school, fulfill her dreams, and break the ceilings and barriers she encounters.

This Mother’s Day, let’s remember the mothers who are missing their daughters, in Nigeria and around the world.

* Emmanuela Gakidou et al., “Increased Educational Attainment and Its Effect on Child Mortality in 175 Countries between 1970 and 2009: A Systematic Analysis,” The Lancet 376, no. 9745 (September 2010): 959–74. Although economic growth was also significantly associated with reductions in child mortality, the magnitude of the association was much smaller than that of increased education. 21 regions, approximately 4 million out of the 8 million children whose lives were saved can be attributed to education for women.

** Shelley Clark and Rohini Mathur, “Dating, Sex, and Schooling in Urban Kenya,” Studies in Family Planning 43, no. 3 (September 2012): 161–74.

*** UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Global Education Digest 2011: Comparing Education Statistics across the World (Montreal, Quebec: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2011).

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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at ‘No Ceilings’ Event in New York – and a BIG Announcement!

Posted in Appearances, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, Speaking Engagements, Twitter, tagged America Ferrera, Appearances, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky, No Ceilings, Speaking Engagements on April 18, 2014| 7 Comments »

On stage with her mom and moderator America Ferrera at Thursday’s No Ceilings event, Chelsea made a big announcement. Smiles and cheers all around! All the best to Chelsea and Marc!

Hillary ClintonVerified account ‏@HillaryClinton

My most exciting title yet: Grandmother-To-Be! @billclinton and I are thrilled that Chelsea and Marc are expecting their first child!

Grandpa-to-be, AKA former POTUS WJC, also chimed in on Twitter!

Bill ClintonVerified account ‏@billclinton

Excited to add a new line to my Twitter bio…grandfather-to-be! @hillaryclinton and I are so happy for Chelsea and Marc!

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Join Hillary and Chelsea Clinton for a ‘No Ceilings’ Event Thursday April 17

Posted in Appearances, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, Speaking Engagements, Uncategorized, tagged America Ferrera, Appearances, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, Speaking Engagements on April 16, 2014| 10 Comments »

On April 17th, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton will host Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation as part of the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project. This event will begin a dialogue with girls from across the country about their lives, experiences, and hopes for the future.

While the event will take place in New York City, we want to broaden this conversation to include girls in schools and organizations from across the country. We will be livestreaming the event and connecting to classrooms and organizations remotely.

If you’re interested in getting your school or organization involved, please RSVP using the form to the right. We will follow-up with more information on the event and suggestions for how you can get involved.

This event is part of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, to help advance the full participation of women and girls around the world. You and your student’s voices and stories are an essential part of understanding how far women and girls have come and what are the most important challenges moving forward.

This event will be powered by Microsoft.

– See more at: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/get-involved/take-action/attend-an-event/girls-no-ceilings-conversation#sthash.5yJs9Bri.dpuf

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Why the ‘No Ceilings’ Conversation with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton is Important for Girls (and Boys!)

Because of this …

‘Because I’m a girl’: Fourth grader denied right to play ball with boys

by Jillian Eugenios, Today | April 12, 2014

TODAY – A top player on a basketball team has been barred from playing in an upcoming game, and it doesn’t have anything to do with how she handles herself on the court.

It’s that she’s even there in the first place.

Jaelyn Bates, a fourth-grader, is a powerful player on the Frey Basketball Academy team, but now she’s been told she can’t compete with her teammates.

“Because I’m a girl, and they’re boys,” Jaelyn, 10, told NBC’s Dave Briggs. Her dad Barry Bates says that her skills on the court measure up to those of the other athletes on her team, even though they’re all boys.

“She fares very well, no difference than any boy with her skills would have,” said Bates. “She gets hurt like every other kid gets hurt. She scores like every other kid scores.”

The boys don’t have a problem with a girl being on their team. But some adults do.

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And now this …

How Birth Order Affects Your Relationships

Find out if your sibling rank influences the way you relate to others

CBS via Getty Images

By Denise Schipani for Woman’s Day

Firstborns: These children tend to be conscientious, ambitious, organized and—in relationships—dominant. Says Cane, “Firstborns like to be in control.” As with all birth-order positions, gender plays a role, too. In the case of firsts, oldest sons tend to be take-charge types, leaders. Oldest females, on the other hand, are more likely to be bossy, confident and aggressive than their younger sisters.

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Seriously, Woman’s Day? There is a difference between take-charge types, leaders and bossy, confident and aggressive? Really? The emphasis above is mine, by the way. To me the difference is your choice of nouns for boys and adjectives for girls, but don’t mind me and my picky grammatical way of looking at things.

This is important!

Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton

New York, NY

Press Release

Event to launch “No Ceilings Conversation” Series

(NEW YORK, NY) – April 11, 2014 – On Thursday April 17th, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton will host Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation – the first in a series of No Ceilings Conversation events designed to provide a forum to hear from girls and women around the world. Moderated by actress and advocate America Ferrera, Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation will bring together girls to talk about their lives, experiences, and hopes for the future.

Taking place at the Lower Eastside Girls Club in New York City, the conversation will join girls from the Girls Club, the Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Inc., Girl Up, the Young Women’s Leadership Network and four schools from across the country on Microsoft’s Skype Software: Seattle Girls’ School in Seattle, Washington; the Hathaway Brown School for Girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio; The York County School District in York, Virginia; and the KIPP Delta High School in Helena, Arkansas. The conversation, powered by Microsoft, will be streamed to allow people from around the world to join the conversation remotely and ask questions via online video streaming and Twitter.

This conversation is part of the Clinton Foundation’s initiative, No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, which seeks to advance the full participation of women and girls around the world. These conversations and the ones to follow will be used to shape and inform the work of No Ceilings.

WHAT:                  Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation

WHO:                    Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and America Ferrera

WHEN:                  Thursday, April 17, 2014

                                 Event: 3:00pm

WHERE:                Lower Eastside Girls Club

To watch the event online, please visit www.clintonfoundation.org/noceilings.

Follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #noceilings

The articles above are two that happened to show up in my MSN newsfeed on the past two consecutive days. They demonstrate the need for this No Ceilings symposium. I hope parents and teachers will make sure the girls in their care are aware of this event and are online on Thursday and participating.

In my opinion, boys can also benefit from watching what goes on at this event. According to the first story, the boys do not have a problem with Jaelyn playing. The adults do (which is pathetic). Boys need to know that supporting a teammate in a situation like this is the right thing to do. They need to know that they can get adult support when they are right.

Enough is enough! This nonsense has run its course.

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Wish a Happy International Women’s Day to Hillary and to All the Women Who Inspire You!

Posted in Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, No Ceilings, tagged Clinton Foundation, Emily's List, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, International Women's Day, No Ceilings on March 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wishing a Happy International Women’s Day to Hillary Clinton, who inspires all of us every day, and to all the supportive women and men who visit this blog.

Thank you, Hillary, for all you do!

Emily’s list invites all of us to thank Hillary!

Today is International Women’s Day.

On March 8, people all around the world celebrate the political, social and economic achievements of women — past, present and future.

To EMILY’s List, no person better embodies the spirit of this day than our friend Hillary Clinton. As first lady, senator, and secretary of state, Hillary’s leadership has inspired millions of women of all ages to keep striving for a more equal world.

Please join EMILY’s List in thanking Hillary Clinton for her fearless, tireless work on behalf of women and families.

Take care,

EMILY’s List

Hillary sent this email out so that you can thank the women who inspire you and invite them to join her initiative, No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project.

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to take a step back and reflect on all the gains women and girls have made around the world, even as we forge ahead to address the gaps that remain.

Almost 20 years ago, the world came together at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to declare with one voice that “human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.” That was more than a declaration of principles – it was a platform for action.

Because of the hard work and courage of women and men all over the world, we’ve made important progress to achieve the full and equal participation of women and girls in every aspect of our societies, from education to the economy to government.

On this International Women’s Day, take a moment to celebrate someone who has helped you make progress by sending a message to a woman who inspires you.

More girls are in school than at any time in history and many discriminatory laws have been repealed.

Yet, no country in the world – including the United States – has achieved full participation. Women and girls still comprise the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unfed, and unpaid.

I believe that helping more women in more places achieve their God-given potential is the great unfinished business of the 21st century – and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines.

Send a message to a woman who inspires you and invite her to be a part of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project.

Through No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, we are collecting data and stories from women and girls around the world to measure the progress we’ve made and the challenges ahead. We’re also working on a 21st century agenda for full participation that will build on the gains of the past 20 years and pave the way for new breakthroughs.

To celebrate this International Women’s Day, I hope you will join us and be a part of the conversation about full participation as we work together to set the agenda for the future.

Send a message to a woman who inspires you and invite her to be a part of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project.

If we get this right, if we learn from the past and plan for the future, we can put the world on a path toward less poverty and more prosperity, less inequality and more opportunity – and we can only do it together. I hope you will join me.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary’s tweet on this occasion.

Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton 3h

For #IWD2014, I celebrate the work of Eleanor Roosevelt, a courageous advocate for human rights. Her work continues to inspire. #NoCeilings

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Email from Chelsea Clinton

Posted in Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, tagged Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Melinda Gates, No Ceilings on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

My mom, Melinda and me

The Clinton Foundation recently launched an important partnership with the Gates Foundation to advance the work of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project. To announce our new effort, I sat down with my mom and Melinda Gates for a deeper conversation on the work we are going to do together and on the best ways to accelerate the inclusion of women and girls throughout the world in all aspects of the social, political, economic, and cultural life of their communities and their countries.

You can see a clip of the event here.

No Ceilings is an initiative launched this past November by my mom. It will examine the progress women and girls have made in the past 20 years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and chart a path forward to give women and girls the opportunity to participate fully in their societies and our world. To understand how to continue advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls around the world, we must take a close look at how far we have come, including in the United States. As we discussed at our event, a vital part of doing this work is through data. In order to erase the gender gap and advance the status of women and girls, women and girls must be counted and progress must be assessed. Data not only measures progress—it inspires it.

Working together, the Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will convene traditional development partners and less traditional development partners, principally leading technology companies, to collect and then compile data into a compelling and publicly accessible review that will identify the progress that has been made, and the gaps that remain, in the 20 years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. It will also provide evidence of the strong connection between rights and opportunities for women and girls and prosperity, stability and security around the world.

The raw data and progress report will both be released in digital and written forms in 2015 in advance of the anniversary of the Beijing Conference.

If you have not yet, I hope you will take this chance to sign up to be a part of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project.

In speaking with Melinda, she eloquently summed up why we’re all so committed to this work: “If we empower women, they’re going to lift their children up, their whole family up, including their daughters, and that virtuous cycle gets going and then those daughters lift the next generation up.”

While we may not yet have a clear picture of what specific actions we will need to take to crack and break ceilings everywhere for every woman and girl, we do know that the work ahead of us cannot be undertaken by any single individual or organization. It begins with the involvement of women, men, girls, and boys from all walks of life—NGOs, governments, businesses, and more—all with an understanding that women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.

I hope you’ll join us, and help accelerate progress for women and girls around the world.

Thanks,

Chelsea

P.S. In case you missed it, check out this highlights video from our conversation.

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Clinton and Gates Foundations to Measure Global Progress for Women and Girls

Posted in Appearances, Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Speaking Engagements, tagged Chelsea Clinton, Clinton Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Melinda Gates, No Ceilings on February 13, 2014| 2 Comments »

Clinton Foundation And Gates Foundation Partner To Measure Global Progress For Women And Girls

New York, NY

Press Release

Today the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new partnership to gather and analyze data about the status of women and girls’ participation around the world, as part of the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings initiative. The partnership was announced during a discussion between Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Melinda Gates hosted by New York University and moderated by Chelsea Clinton.

The partnership teams the Foundations to work with leading technology partners to collect these data and compile them into a compelling and publicly accessible review that will identify the progress that has been made, and the gaps that remain, in the 20 years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. It will also provide evidence of the strong connection between rights and opportunities for women and girls and prosperity, stability and security around the world.

The data will be released in digital and written forms as part of a progress report in 2015 in advance of the anniversary of the Beijing Conference.

In order to narrow the gender gap and advance the status of girls and women, girls and women must be counted. Data not only measures progress—it inspires it.

I had wondered how the weather was going to affect this event. Hillary tweeted this early in the morning.

Hillary ClintonVerified account ‏@HillaryClinton

Headed in from Chappaqua on this snowy morning to talk to @melindagates about why data is so important for women and girls. #NoCeilings