Helene
Martin Gee and Jill Pay represented Pink Shoe Club along with Sue Lawton,
Global Advisor to WEConnect International, at a Debriefing on the Women’s
Affairs Ministerial Meeting, following the Women in Business roundtable at the
Commonwealth’s 10th Women’s Affairs Ministerial Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh this June.
The International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW International) and the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs (BAWE) are working together to create a roadmap for women’s economic empowerment which will be put to the Commonwealth summit meeting in Sri Lanka this November.
The 3 key areas of focus, are i). women on boards and executive positions; ii). women in trade and procurement; iii). women’s access to finance and skills.
A report has been published by the highly respected Dr Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj of Henley Business School.
Speakers included Nicky Morgan MP; Parliamentarian Rushanara Ali, and Arif Zaman, Adviser, South Asia and Corporate Governance and Chair of Commonwealth Businesswomen (CBW).
It was wholeheartedly agreed that women's economic empowerment is firmly on the
Commonwealth
Ministerial agenda for the first time.
As Nicky Morgan said ‘empowering women is a highly effective method of tackling deprivation and encouraging a strong economy’.
As Nicky Morgan said ‘empowering women is a highly effective method of tackling deprivation and encouraging a strong economy’.
