Julia Ross's blog

Since the Bank’s founding in 1944, women have made giant leaps toward gender equality in much of the world.  They’ve entered the workforce in huge numbers, gained the right to vote, improved their education and health status, and served as heads of government. On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, we’ve created a timeline to commemorate these milestones and inspire women to continue breaking glass ceilings.

A lot can happen in a year. 2010 saw the Bank reach record levels of commitments and disbursements as the world continued to pull itself out of the financial crisis. Developing countries emerged as engines of economic growth; Haiti and Pakistan suffered devastating natural disasters; and food prices continued to rise.

Today the World Bank unveils a new home page as a preliminary step in a broader, site-wide redesign, which we’ll begin rolling out at the end of 2010.