No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project
The project is “an effort led by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Clinton Foundation to bring together partner organizations to evaluate and share the progress women and girls have made in the 20 years since the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This new effort will help chart the path forward to accelerate full participation for women and girls in the 21st century. The full participation of women and girls is critical to global progress, development, and security.”

Hillary Clinton launches global data project on women and girls
Washington Post | 13 February 2014
“…With the 20th anniversary approaching of a historic 1995 women’s conference, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to gather and study data on the global progress of women and girls and the gaps that remain.

The “No Ceilings” project will aggregate data from traditional sources, such as the World Bank, as well as less traditional ones, such as Google, to document progress since the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing. Clinton addressed that conference as first lady, declaring “women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are women’s rights.” The partnership was announced Thursday morning at New York University, where Chelsea Clinton moderated a discussion on women and girls with Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates.

Calling women’s empowerment “one of the great causes of my life,” Clinton, who championed these issues as secretary of state, said the data project is critical to understanding how much work remains.

“We have seen progress, but we’ve also seen that there’s not an adequate base of information and evidence that we can draw conclusions from about how much progress has been made and what the gaps for action and decision making are,” Clinton said…