BIAC announces Joint Workshop on Women’s Economic Empowerment
 On 2 February, BIAC, AmCham France, and the OECD will
hold a joint workshop on
"The Business Case for Women’s Economic Empowerment" at the OECD conference center in Paris.
Organised as one-day invitation-only event, the joint workshop aims to provide a business perspective and best practice experience to
the OECD Gender Initiative, a multi-disciplinary program to help governments promote gender equality in education, employment and entrepreneurship.
The workshop topics will focus on three main objectives of the meeting:
- Highlight the business case for women’s economic empowerment through presentation of company case studies and talent management best practices;
- Identify key public policy issues needed to enable employer best practices and advance women’s economic empowerment;
- Identify areas for OECD work to further elaborate on key issues and questions raised by the workshop.
The workshop will facilitate exchanges between senior experts from business, government, academia, international organisations and other stakeholders
to provide proactive input to the 2012 OECD Ministerial and Forum to be held in May.
As background, BIAC Chairman Charles Heeter addresses gender diversity in the workplace in an article published in the 2012 OECD Yearbook,
entitled "Gender Dividend: An urgent economic imperative" (available on line
here, see page 26).
For further information on BIAC’s work on woman’s economic empowerment, please contact Nicole Primmer at the BIAC Secretariat.
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