Guest column: Women as a force for economic change

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The economic potential of women remains glaringly untapped. A recent study in UBS’s CIO Wealth Management Research showed women could add trillions to the economy — $12 trillion in fact. Moreover, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the more women who work, the faster economies grow. Unfortunately the United Nation’s 2015 Global Gender Gap Report found only 50 percent of all women worldwide are gainfully employed and here in Maryland, women are paid 85…