Experts share new studies and documented best practices at global conference. June 8th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):To help power progress, organizations at all levels have stepped up to document solutions and develop guidance for improving the health and rights of girls and women in humanitarian emergencies. Today at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, Bill Chambers,...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Automation in the workplace will be a crossroads for women: McKinsey
June 5th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, The future of women at work: Transitions in the age of automation, released on June 4th, 2019 at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, explores the impact of automation on the global workforce through a gender lens. It finds that 40 million to 160 million womenas...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Worlds Largest Conference on Gender Equality Opens in Vancouver with a Call to Redefine Power at Every Level
June 4th, 2019, Vancouver (Canada):The Women Deliver 2019 Conference, the worlds largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women, kicked off today with more than 8,000 world leaders, influencers, advocates, academics, activists, and journalists gathered in Vancouver, and more than 100,000 participating in a global dialogue around the...
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IN FOCUS WD2019: Nearly 40% of the worlds girls and women live in countries failing on gender equality, SDG Index finds
Read Report Here Vancouver, (Canada):Results for 129 countries measured by a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Gender Index released today by Equal Measures 2030 show that the world is far from achieving gender equality, with 1.4 billion girls and women living in countries that get a very poor failing grade on gender equality. The...
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IN FOCUS – WD2019: Gender Norms, Bias Impact Health Data, Systems Negatively
The Lancet Series on Gender Equality, Norms, and Health finds better global healthcare outcomes and reducing gender inequality are dependent on changing gender norms June 3rd, 2019, London (England):The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed and one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious, and best known general medical journals,published a new Series that finds that restrictive...
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Deliver to Empower
In 2007, a groundbreaking organization, Women Deliver, was founded that advocated for gender equality and health and rights of women and girls all over the world. Founded by Jill Sheffield, a staunch advocate of maternal, reproductive and sexual health and also a founder of Family Care International. Womens Delivers very first conference was held in...
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Women Who Tech
Ten of the top women-led startups working tirelessly to solve some of our countrys biggest issues will pitch prominent investors for a chance to win a $50K grant and $280K in Google Cloud services. Women Who Tech is a non-profit organization which was launched in 2008 in an effort to bring together women trailblazers disrupting...
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Award winning creative leader to head Leo Burnett Worldwide
May 23rd, 2019,Dubai (UAE): Award-winning creative leader Liz Taylor will join Leo Burnett Worldwide as chief creative officer. Starting July 8, she will sit at the agency’s Chicago headquarters leading the creative direction of the global agency network. Taylor will work alongside the network’s creative leadership team to help build the agency’s offering and culture...
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Five Years and Growing…
May 8th, 2019, Dubai (UAE):Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the hottest technology fields today, with job opportunities continuing to grow across both. However, worldwide, women make up less than 15 percent of the professionals in these high-tech jobs(2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study: Women in Cybersecurity),and only 1 in 20 girls opts...
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Accessing Economic Empowerment Via Tech
We are living in a world that has not only transformed into a global village, but is also one that is very-fast paced, thanks to technology. And it keeps on changing every single day. Those who are not able to get even a slice of technology are left miles behind, almost in pits of darkness,...