For those of you who don't know Gayle -- she is a ROCKSTAR.  Her book about women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan will hit the bookstands in mid-March, Harper Collins the publisher.  STAY TUNED.  

 

January 28, 2011  

Women Help Each Other Start Businesses in Afghanistan

By GAYLE TZEMacH LEMMON

85 Broads was originally launched in 1997 for current and former Goldman Sachs women who worked at 85 Broad Street in NYC. We became 85Broads.com in 1999 and in 2000, expanded beyond GS when we invited women at the leading graduate business schools to join the network.

In 2004, we invited women at the leading undergraduate colleges and universities to join as well, along with women who were alumnae...

In Afghanistan, where domestic violence is epidemic, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon speaks to young mothers who’ve survived abuse and want women’s rights to top the military’s agenda.

Sitting atop a burgundy pillow with her back pressed up against the bare white wall of the shelter she now calls home, Naseema pushes her polka-dot headscarf away from her eyes and begins to tell her story.

She was around 16 years old when her father, who...