In its thirty years of working with women entrepreneurs, WWB has proven that having access to safe, flexible and confidential savings products has significant empowerment potential. WWB believes that the effect will be the same for a group not traditionally involved in the financial sector: young women between the ages of 7 and 24.

From July 7th to July 11th, WWB will hold its third annual Women in Leadership workshop in New York City. The five-day workshop, delivered in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management, seeks to develop the next generation of women leaders in microfinance

On April 22, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Women's World Banking and the Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund co-hosted a conference on private bank entry into microfinance, to promote the expansion of financial services for the region's poor and low-income entrepreneurs.

Microfinance Insights featured an interview with WWB’s CEO, Mary Ellen Iskenderian. The article, titled “Sector Targets a Majority of Women, Employs a Minority,” questioned the lack of upper management positions held by women in microfinance: “Women make up less than half of all microfinance staff members, and fill even fewer of the senior management roles.