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The Defiant Optimist : Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shahnaz, Durreen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shahnaz, Durreen.
- Women in finance.
- Financial exclusion.
- Microfinance.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : 1517 Media, 2023.
- Summary:
- When she launched the world's first social stock exchange, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a financial system; she sparked a movement. Defiant optimism means changing how systems work--and who they work for. In these pages Shahnaz offers strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the planet at the heart of financial systems.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Stitch Threads of Defiance
- 1. Being a Girl
- 2. Tea with Soldiers
- 3. The Meaning of Independence
- 4. Should and Should Not
- 5. Defying the Status Quo
- Part II: Search for the Source of Power
- 6. Rebel with a Cause
- 7. Where Power Lives
- 8. Off to Wall Street
- 9. Balancing between Two Worlds
- 10. Cross the Bridge
- 11. When a Woman Signs Her Name
- 12. Build Your Own Bridge
- Part III: Connect the Haves and Have-Nots
- 13. Toward a Global Marketplace
- 14. Who Will Put the Equity in Equity?
- 15. A Growth Mindset
- 16. The Day Papers Fell from the Sky
- 17. Things Fall Apart
- Part IV: Imagine a New World
- 18. Belonging
- 19. Something to Fight For
- 20. New Systems, from Scratch
- 21. The Meaning of Impact
- 22. Build a New Model
- 23. Another One Bites the Dust
- 24. The Phoenix Rises
- Part V: Create Your Own Change
- 25. Put One Foot in Front of the Other
- 26. Invest in Women
- 27. Find Strength in Friends and Allies
- 28. Make Their Weapons Your Tools
- 29. Be Inspired by Those Who Went Before
- 30. Stay True to the Vision
- Commitments of the Defiant Optimist
- Acknowledgments
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shahnaz, Durreen The Defiant Optimist
- ISBN:
- 1-5064-8077-2
- OCLC:
- 1381709709
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