Women are full of creativity and strong ideas for starting businesses, but many in her home country aren’t sure where or how to begin putting those ideas into action, a global economic empowerment officer said Wednesday.

Oyu-Erdene Batzeveg advances civil society and women’s economic empowerment as a program officer for the Asia Foundation.

“We provide programs to ensure women have this killer entrepreneurial mentality, because it’s really an issue with women, like they don’t really value themselves, and they struggle with their self-esteem a lot,” she told a group of Toledo entrepreneurs. “These kinds of psychological or emotional struggles actually hinder their empowerment.”

At TolHouse Wednesday, the fall cohort of the Northwest Ohio Business Mentoring Program joined mentors, mentees

See Full Page