A World Bank project that rendered Bimbo Oshobe destitute turned her into a women’s rights and community leader.
Author: Elaine Zuckerman
Elaine Zuckerman is President of Gender Action. After she joined the World Bank in 1980 as an economist, she went on to create the Bank's first program to globally mitigate SALs' harmful impacts on the poor, especially on women, and work in the gender unit. In the 1990s, she was also Coordinator of the Social Agenda Policy Group at the Inter-American Development Bank.
The Case for a Feminist World Bank President
A female Bank President would symbolize the increasing power of women—but a woman President alone will not be enough to right the Bank.