ET Women’s Forum: Ensuring priority to gender parity
The speakers will include former Australian PM Julia Gillard, Kumar Mangalam Birla, and Rohini Nilekani among others.
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More than 30 speakers, including former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, will lead an audience of about 500 accomplished women on this exploratory journey.
MUMBAI: About a year ago, empowering India’s half a billion women was a popular theme here and abroad. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde forecast a 27% GDP expansion if women were empowered. India announced its commitment by, among other things, issuing its annual Economic Survey with a pink cover and making a signal contribution to the discussion. The survey measured India’s performance on 17 parameters of women’s empowerment.
A year later, the enthusiasm and resolve haven’t faded but the desired results are yet to be accomplished. India has actually slipped a few notches on several parameters on the annual World Economic Forum’s World Gender Gap Report 2018, even though it has held on to its not-too-impressive ranking of 108 in afield of 149 nations. (See page 12)
The opportunity is very real but so are the challenges. Both set the stage for the second edition of The Economic Times Women’s Forum.
More than 30 speakers, including Kumar Mangalam Birla (R) and Rohini Nilekani (L), will lead an audience of about 500 accomplished women on this exploratory journey. The day long event will carry forward the mission it began with last year — collaboratively creating an urgent, sustainable and national culture of empowering India’s half a billion women. The ET Women’s Forum hopes to seed many new ideas and conversations on facilitating greater participation and reducing gender inequality in every sphere of life, work and play.
More than 30 speakers, including former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, Kumar Mangalam Birla, global chair of the 30% Club Brenda Trenowden and philanthropist Rohini Nilekani will lead an audience of about 500 accomplished women on this exploratory journey.
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PM Narendra Modi had vowed to improve India’s ranking in the World Bank’s ease of doing business tables. He delivered on his promise as India catapulting from 142 to 77 in a field of 190 nations. The PM has declared his resolve to take India into the top 50.
The ET Women’s Forum will call for a similar collaborative effort in harmony with the government, India Inc and other stakeholders aimed at moving up the gender gap rankings with the same result-oriented focus.
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