Ivanka Trump: Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP)

Despite women making up half the world’s population, women remain one of the greatest underutilized resources and continue to face significant barriers to full and free economic participation. Studies have found that when women participate in the negotiation of peace agreements, those agreements are 35 percent more likely to last at least 15 years, and that if women participated in labor markets to the equal extent of their male counterparts, as much as $12 trillion could be added to global annual GDP by 2025. Global stability is only realized when women and men are able to participate economically and politically at all levels. In February 2019, President Donald Trump signed into action the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative. Led by the United States Government and W-GDP partners, the initiative is centered around women’s economic empowerment and aims to reach 50 million women by 2025 to boost women’s economic empowerment, collective economic prosperity, and global stability. T