Clinton Global Initiative: Chelsea Clinton's Feminist Imperative - The Battle For Gender Equality

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And then the conversation turns to gender, and the strong shift of both the Clinton Foundation and CGI’s focus in the last few years to equality and opportunity for women and girls around the world – in sync with her mother’s work at the U.S. State Department. “It used to be a separate track, but we moved away from that a few years ago because we realized everything we do is related to women in some way.” The word, she says, became “think about gender” in as many of the CGI commitments as possible – and this year, about two-thirds of all partnerships developed at CGI involve women and girls or gender issues.

“I certainly feel that responsibility,” says Clinton, who later adds that “the invisibility of girls and women is staggering.”

Clinton acknowledges the work of “young feminist bloggers who are trying to figure our how to create a safe space to take action gender based violence here at home.” Some of her work with both CGI and CGIU is aimed at “trying to help impassioned young women, and to be as involved as I can be in helping to figure things out.”

She discusses small farmers and land rights for women in Malawi and Rwanda, early childhood investments and gender education, peacemaking initiatives and the possibility of the generation free from HIV/AIDS – zeroing in on statistics that show that African-American women may actually see a decline in life expectancy in the U.S. “unless we stop this silent AIDS problem.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2013/09/25/clinton-global-initiative-chelsea-clintons-feminist-imperative-the-battle-for-gender-equality/