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Bank on Her: 5 Women Prove Why They Belong in the Formal Financial System

Bank on Her: 5 Women Prove Why They Belong in the Formal Financial System

Last month, the World Bank released new data about how adults around the world use formal financial services. The good news: the number of people with a bank account grew by 700 million worldwide from 2011 to 2014. The bad news: of the remaining 2 billion people without a bank account, women are still disproportionately underserved. The gender gap of 7 percentage points did not budge from 2011 to 2014.

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