The Third Billion
The Third Billion was the term used to represent the approximately one billion women in both developed and industrialized nations whose economic lives were stunted, underleveraged, or suppressed, and who could have taken their place in the global economy as consumers, producers, employees and entrepreneurs. == Overview of The Third Billion Concept == Approximately 870 million women who have been living or contributing at a subsistence level entered the economic mainstream for the first time as producers, consumers, employees, and entrepreneurs by 2020.