From the Desk of Joy Roller: Women Leaders
It's been said that the world would be a better place if it were run by women. For example, in a recent essay in the Wall Street Journal, Professor Melvin Konner says that due to biological make-up, countries would be less likely to go to war if a woman headed them. According to Konner, "Sex scandals, financial corruption and violence are all overwhelmingly male."
I bring this up because in my time at Global Cleveland, I've noticed again and again that it's women who are driving the efforts to bring people together and break down the walls that divide us. For example, Rita Singh, an immigrant who arrived in this country in 1979, not only built a Cleveland-based international business consulting firm with her husband, she also founded Elite Women Around the World, a membership organization working to enhance the economic position of women globally.
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