Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage

by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Lynn S. ElHarake

Overview

One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved effective against child marriage.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149661619
Publisher:	Council on Foreign Relations
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	58
File size:	338 KB

About the Author

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is the New York Times best-selling author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and a senior fellow with the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, Lemmon covered public policy and emerging markets for the global investment firm PIMCO, after working for nearly a decade as a journalist with the ABC News political unit and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Lemmon has reported on entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict regions for the Financial Times, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Daily Beast, Fast Company, Politico, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg. She is also the author of the Newsweek March 2011 cover story "The Hillary Doctrine" on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's push to put women at the center of U.S. foreign policy. She has written regularly for the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. Lemmon appears frequently on news outlets including NBC News, National Public Radio, MSNBC, and CNN. Lemmon earned a BA in journalism summa cum laude from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she received the 2006 Dean's Award for her work on women's entrepreneurship.

Lynn S. ElHarake is a research associate in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining CFR, ElHarake worked for Global Health Strategies, a communications and advocacy consulting firm. There, she oversaw outreach to the Middle East and North Africa region, and also consulted directly for Women Deliver, a global advocacy nongovernmental organization, in the lead-up to its third global conference. She also worked as a research assistant to Iman Nuwayhid, dean of the faculty of health sciences at the American University of Beirut. She was a Fulbright scholar in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. She has written for CFR blogs and other international development websites on issues related to women, the Middle East, and entrepreneurship. ElHarake graduated cum laude from Duke University with a BA in biological anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern studies.