Last week, Barnard College and President Debora L. Spar hosted Queen Noor of Jordan, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee, CARE USA CEO Helene Gayle, President of Goldman Sachs Foundation and Founder of 10,000 Women Dina Powell, New York Commissioner for International Affairs Penny Abeywardena, and more than a dozen other women leaders from around the world at Barnard College for a series of discussions centered on urgent questions about women’s equality and leadership worldwide. Barnard College’s 7th Annual Global Symposium — which has gathered women leaders in Beijing, Dubai, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai — was held in New York City for the first time this year in celebration of the College’s 125th Anniversary. The event coincided with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Beijing +20 Summit in New York, where thousands of government officials, advocates and experts gathered to review progress in gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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