“Gender Economic Governance is a Strategic Business Issue.
If an organization does not leverage the potent weapon of gender equality, it risks limiting its performance potential and ultimately losing its competitive edge.”
“Women represent a huge market opportunity and growing purchasing power, led by trends toward gender parity in education, entrepreneurship, and wealth. 40% of global wealth is held by women.”
Gender Economic Governance - Corporate Programme
Establishing Gender Economic Governance is a fundamental pillar to the economy and sustainable development of all countries. However, rooted in the industrial era, the current model operating in most organisations is to think of talent as a cost, and women as a niche group. But in the knowledge economy, talent is an asset, and women are key to both the talent and consumer marketplace. What this requires, therefore, is a business response to what is essentially a business problem: An evaluation of the bottom line impact of investing in gender matters at all business and operations levels.
GENDER ECONOMIC VISION
In a globally interdependent political, social and economic environment, partnerships play an increasingly vital role to:
Create a vibrant business environment involving a broad spectrum of actors, collaborators, contributors and innovators to open opportunities for women and men; and
Enable the active and interactive participation of governments, international financial institutions, the private sector, investors, nongovernmental organisations, academia and professional organisations to work together.
GENDER ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES
Empowering women, especially mothers, to fully participate in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to:
Build strong economies and establish more stable and just societies;
Achieve internationally agreed goals for development, sustainability and human rights;
Improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and
Propel businesses’ operations and goals.
Register for the Gender Economic Governance Stakeholder Meetings 2021
This year, the GEG STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS 2021 are online
This new event format will include alongside live-streaming of keynote sessions and online engagement (+10,000 viewers over the 1 day regional meeting covering Africa, Americas, Arab States, Europe and Asia Pacific). Since the number of in-person spots is limited, please ensure that you have registered online to guarantee your place. MOH International is looking forward to welcoming you all to celebrate our 10th edition together in March.
GEG 2021's overarching theme, 'A global vision for the future where gender equality is the thriving force of our economy and society', is based on the importance of sustainability. Businesses play an essential role in finding solutions to better the future of our continent. Through our sessions, including high-level plenaries, expert roundtables, interactive talks, short expert presentations and networking moments, GEG 2021 will highlight a new approach to women’s participation in the economy and its focus on the macro-critical impact and sustainable transformation that gender economic governance has on economies and societies.
“In nearly every country today, women face barriers to fully participate in the workforce and earn as much as men. Because of this, women account for only 38 per cent of their country’s human capital wealth.”
GENDER DIVIDEND
Boosting the national competitiveness through the gender economic dividend at the country level
Countries with no gender gaps have the highest ratings for international competitiveness. Advancing sustainable development by 2030 requires the recognition of the gender labour gap in work and employment and create a cohesive action-oriented plan that all stakeholders can support, a plan that challenges businesses and national governments to develop macro economic responsive implementations of the SDGs.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
Maximising the SDG5 performance of countries by leading companies to face the sustainable era
Creating a solid social and economic foundation for the future development of all populations, is a must to set the stage for more evolving and civilised socioeconomic paradigms. All over the globe, countries and companies face a common challenge: How to best strengthen their economy and workforce, while also taking societal concerns into consideration?
Global Stakeholder Meetings 2021
“Women are adding $5 trillion to wealth globally every year and are expected to accumulate wealth at a compounded annual rate ranging from 3.7% to 7.2% in the next four years, depending upon the effects of COVID-19. Nonetheless, women’s wealth trajectory is expected to outpace that of global wealth growth.”
Engage in accelerated learning opportunities specific to your country context
► Confidently set ambitious and realistic corporate targets for gender equality demonstrating commitment and action to your employees, investors and other stakeholders
► Understand your current gender equality performance through the facilitated use of the Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool
► Build a network of peers, UN partners and experts to support your gender equality strategy and work collectively to tackle persistent barriers to gender equality.
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