Mark Muckerheide is Associate Vice-President of Women’s Economic Justice (WEJ) for CARE USA. With its focus on supporting women to earn, save and invest more, the WEJ team focuses on scaling efforts through a portfolio of market-based approaches, which includes: savings groups, women’s entrepreneurship, gender equality in supply chains, impact investing and social businesses. Previously, Mark spent 20 years as a retail executive with Target Corporation. Mark's first 15 years at Target were in brand management, with his last role as general manager of one of Target's billion-dollar grocery business units. During Mark’s last five years at Target, he served as Director of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. In this role, he was responsible for a $100 million philanthropic portfolio, as well as responsible for co-leading Target's corporate-wide effort to create a more business-aligned CSR and sustainability strategy.
Invertir en programas que aumenten los ingresos y los ahorros de las mujeres y mejoren su control sobre sus finanzas puede contribuir dramáticamente a la paridad de género.
Investing in programmes that increase women’s earnings and savings — and enhance women's control over their finances — helps close the global gender gap.
Las mujeres poseen el 22% de las microempresas y el 32% de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes), pero siguen teniendo dificultades para acceder al capital que necesitan.
Women entrepreneurs own 22% of micro-enterprises and 32% of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), yet still struggle to access the capital they need.
