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She had a love of fashion and worked in a sewing factory in lower Manhattan, until she saved up enough to open her own women's clothing store.

And it's not black women or men, and it's not Latin women or men.

It's Asian women who are least likely to be promoted.

One in particular, a photo of women of all ages, from grandmother to little girl, gathered around a baby, struck a chord, because a similar photo from my family, my grandmother and mother, myself, and newborn daughter, hangs on our wall.

Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees, men, women, children, entire families in fact, were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust, while mechanically stacking bricks on their head, up to 18 at a time, and carrying them from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.

In Kathmandu, I was escorted by women who had previously been sex slaves themselves.

Each has small, private rooms, where the slaves, women, along with young girls and boys, some as young as seven years old, are forced to entertain the clients, encouraging them to buy more food and alcohol.

Many women had children strapped to their backs while they were panning for gold, wading in water poisoned by mercury.

I told the psychiatrist that I wanted to watch women as they died, because it would make me feel more normal."

The first time the possibility for independence was discussed was in 1922, following the Aba women's market riots.

All of these speakers, by the way, are young women, 18 or 19 years old.

They were fresh, functional, and women everywhere adored them.

Across China, there are 150 million workers like her, one third of them women, who have left their villages to work in the factories, the hotels, the restaurants and the construction sites of the big cities.

Instead, I found young women who were smart and funny and brave and generous.

I keep it with me to remind me of the ties that tie me to the young women I wrote about, ties that are not economic but personal in nature, measured not in money but in memories.

I hope you're willing to come with me on this, but my real problem with the mindset that is so out to defeat death is if you're anti-death, which to me translates as anti-life, which to me translates as anti-nature, it also translates to me as anti-woman, because women have long been identified with nature.

So to me, the mindset that denies that, that denies that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for people associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of slaves, or people who perform manual labor.

Countless women, men and children have been raped, tortured or enslaved.

So women are much more likely to do this kind of thing than men.

Women feel chronically less powerful than men, so this is not surprising.

You get these equally qualified women and men coming in and then you get these differences in grades, and it seems to be partly attributable to participation.

But literally within days of arriving I was told, in no uncertain terms, by a number of West African women, that Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

I think that failure can be an incredibly motivating force as well, so I moved to Kenya and worked in Uganda, and I met a group of Rwandan women, who asked me, in 1986, to move to Kigali to help them start the first microfinance institution there.

And while we were doing it, I realized that there weren't a lot of businesses that were viable and started by women, and so maybe I should try to run a business, too.

I also found out that the bakery was nothing like a business, that, in fact, it was a classic charity run by a well-intentioned person, who essentially spent 600 dollars a month to keep these 20 women busy making little crafts and baked goods, and living on 50 cents a day, still in poverty.

So, I made a deal with the women.

And the women said, "You know, Jacqueline, who in Nyamirambo is not going to buy doughnuts out of an orange bucket from a tall American woman?"

Completely failed, but over time, the women learnt to sell on their own way.

And they started listening to the marketplace, and they came back with ideas for cassava chips, and banana chips, and sorghum bread, and before you knew it, we had cornered the Kigali market, and the women were earning three to four times the national average.

And the women said, "That's a really great idea."

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