{"id":656878,"date":"2013-05-08T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=b8eb1d498a1942cbfa9801b6fc2b00c3"},"modified":"2013-05-08T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:53:02","slug":"from-snacks-to-cleaning-products-women-empowered-to-start-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656878","title":{"rendered":"From Snacks to Cleaning Products: Women Empowered to Start Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/mexico-costa-rica-trip-2013\">President Obama&rsquo;s visit to Mexico and Costa Rica<\/a>, I had the pleasure of participating in a roundtable discussion on women&rsquo;s entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>In Mexico, President Obama and President Enrique Pe&ntilde;a Nieto underscored the importance of their countries&rsquo; cooperation on regional and international issues, including gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>On this, we were thrilled to hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/05\/02\/joint-statement-between-united-states-and-mexico\">Mexico will join the Equal Futures Partnership<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/04\/19\/fact-sheet-equal-futures-partnership-promise-progress\">multilateral effort<\/a> to expand women&rsquo;s economic empowerment and political participation which I helped launch<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/empowering-women-and-girls-united-states-and-abroad\"> last September<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Mexico, I participated in a roundtable for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2012\/04\/187904.htm\">Women Entrepreneurship in the Americas, or WEAmericas<\/a> with Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne. The goal of our roundtable was to discuss and identify potential opportunities to work together to support more women entrepreneurs throughout Mexico, the region, and around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/snacks-cleaning-products-women-empowered-start-businesses\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, as part of President Obama&rsquo;s visit to Mexico and Costa Rica, I had the pleasure of participating in a roundtable discussion on women&rsquo;s entrepreneurship. In Mexico, President Obama and President Enrique Pe&ntilde;a Nieto underscored the importance of their countries&rsquo; cooperation on regional and international issues, including gender equality. On this, we were thrilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}