Womenomics-in-Action: Opportunities and Challenges

Diversity in leadership is good for business, as evidenced by the rise in the proportion of women in top positions in the corporate world since 2015.

Women from all walks of life are working together to solve the world's most pressing issues.

In order to fully realise the Fourth Industrial Revolution's promise and ensure that technology is produced from a balanced perspective, the IT industry has to attract more women.

In a perfect world, it wouldn't matter if the IMF, Microsoft, or the Democratic Party were run by a woman. Does the owner of a small business or a digital start-up care that it's a woman who helps make financing more available? Are they worried that a woman made it possible for a miner, factory worker, or fisherman to have a bigger part of the profits and send their children to school?

When it comes to wildfires, riverbank collapses, melting ice caps, fatbergs, floating islands of plastic, and the extinction of species, no one considers the sex of the people involved. The need for more women in leadership roles is still crucial in our day and in light of the difficulties of the next decades.

Since its inception in Japan eight years ago, the term "Womenomics" has been used to describe policies aimed at increasing the proportion of women in the workforce. The dwindling workforce necessitates the government's encouragement of the progress of women in the workforce, while corporations provide more family-friendly policies for their employees.

What progress have we made, then, with women making up less than 10% of the world's CEOs? What can be done to increase the number of women in leadership positions? What are the most common reasons why women leave the workforce? In addition, what are the most likely outcomes?

In light of an unprecedented global movement to increase the number of women at the board/managerial level, the importance of diversity has moved Japan and other nations to implement similar women’s empowerment programs. In the case of Japan, the Abe administration made one of its primary goals to increase the proportion of women at the board/managerial level up to 30% by 2020.

With the movement for women’s equality in the workplace in full swing, we bring together a panel of experts to examine the successes and challenges of corporate initiatives with the intent of fostering women’s empowerment and engagement across world.

Topics we plan to examine?in detail are: successful initiatives that have led to an increase in the number of women at the board/managerial level, the challenges that women still face in the workplace, and also a look at the international ideas that the countries can adopt and implement to further the women’s movement.

Panel Discussion On

• Womenomics-in-Action:?Opportunities and Challenges
• Why ‘Womenomics‘ Needs to Be Part of Your Business Strategy

Womenomics-in-Action: Opportunities and Challenges

What’s the economic and business rationale behind Womenomics?

What progress has been seen since 1999?

What areas still need improvement?

What should the government, corporations and society do now?

Why the emerging world must focus on ‘Womenomics’

Why ‘Womenomics’ needs to be part of your business strategy

Companies are rewriting rules to help achieve equal pay

What's happening across the world

Strategies of support

Maternity and parental leave

Wiser Womenomics policies for winning solutions

We must work together to achieve our goal of increasing diversity and inclusion. Womenomics in Action was created by the Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade as a global movement in which female and male role models representing courage and strength are welcomed to draw light on the unlimited possibilities and appreciated traits that leaders have.

Participants and speakers' views and opinions are not necessarily those of Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade (GCPIT) or its committees unless explicitly declared to be so. There is no GCPIT endorsement or approval of the information supplied.

Join Your Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade

To get the most out of your Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade, you'll need to do more than take advantage of a few discounts. Your membership gives you access to a diverse group of business owners from a variety of industries and the ability to have your say heard at all levels of government, from the local to the global.

If you're trying to expand your professional network outside your local community, why not join the most prestigious? The Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade (GCPIT) is a fast-growing futuristic council based in India, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, the UAE, and the European Union (GCPIT). GCPIT gives you access to more than 50 international chambers of commerce, which collectively represent tens of thousands of companies.

Disclaimer

The Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade (India, the United States, the United Kingdom, United Arab of Emirates, European Union, and South Africa), the Global Council for Cluster Excellence and Research (GCCER), the Confederation of Indian Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME), and UFirst Eduversity have started "Sustainomics", a new newsletter created in collaboration with the twelve global alliances.

The group utilizes data and information from the public, private and internal sources, including data from actual its open data access. While we consider information from external sources reliable, we do not assume responsibility for its accuracy.

#sustainability ?#sustainabilitygoals ?#sustainabilitymatters ?#sustainablebusiness ?#sustainabledevelopment ?#sustainablebrands ?#sustainablefashion ?#sustainabilityleadership ?#sustainabilitystrategy ?#sustainablecities ?#sustainableagriculture ?#sustainablefinance ?#sustainablefarming ?#sustainabledevelopmentgoals ?#sustainableconstruction ?#sustainableenergy ?#sustainablebusinessstrategies