Founding W20 Chair, 2015
The economic empowerment of women is one of the most fundamental components of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment more broadly, if women participated in the economy identically to men, it would add up to USD 28 trillion, or 26%, to annual GDP in 2025 compared with a business-as-usual scenario;…
I am a proud lister of Forbes 50/50 of 2023. The first 50 means 50 selected women and the second 50 means I am more than 50 years old. Say 51 years old (!)… As I was listed as 50/50 by Forbes in 2023 in Europe, Africa and Middle East,…
The W20 India held its inception meeting on February 27-28, 2023, in Chatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly known as Aurangabad), Maharashtra. The speakers at the inauguration session were Dr. Sandhya Purecha, Chair of W20 India Mr. Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, India Dr. Bhagwat Krishanrao Karad, Minister of State for Finance, Government of…
Rural women offer great potential for all our futures simply because they are the cornerstones of our food safety and environmental protection. These women are workers without pay completely leaving aside the gender pay gap—but they are at the same time smart business partners and workers. For more information please…
Women 20 2022 (W20) calls upon the G20 leaders to ensure that women and girls are central to the 2022 G20 Presidency theme of ‘Recover Together, Recover Stronger’. W20 urge G20 leaders to: — Act on their commitments to implement the “G20 Roadmap Towards and Beyond the Brisbane Target”, also…
Dear All, I wish to start my speech with by thanking to the W20 Indonesian Presidency for inviting me and taking the topic of rural women into the agenda. In rural areas we have women judges, lawyers and architects and bankers and businesspeople who choose to live outside of the…
The Third Eurasian Women’s Forum was held on 13-15 October 2021 in Saint Petersburg. The slogan of the forum was “Women: A Global Mission in a New Reality.” Even this theme implies change. I believe that we are already going through a period of change, and we shall all be…
People all over the planet are at the epicentre of three epochal influences – the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis and the technological revolution. These will have considerable social, economic and environmental impact for years to come, particularly on women. We, the representatives of the 2021 Women 20, call on…
Elena Bonetti, Italian Minister of Equal Opportunities and Family hosted a first time ever G20 conference for the Ministers of the respective countries of the world who are engaged in gender on August 26, 2021, in Santa Margherita Ligure Italy. Elena Bonetti was born in 1974 and she had obtained her…
The P50 community hosted the annual Summer Peace Summit The Third Summer Peace Summit, a traditional major meeting of the participants of the Peace 50 international community, took place on July 1, 2021. This year, the event brought together women leaders from 12 countries and was dedicated to the topic…
Starting from the next 8 th of March, the woman should only have a name and no adjectives! Woman is neither an angel, nor a flower, nor a bitch, nor a fetish, not fragile, not somebody’s wife or daughter; Let all the women be independent of all the prejudiced adjectives…
In 2015 we had: 1. Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel 2. Brazil: President Dilma Rousseff 3. IMF: Managing Director Christine Lagarde 2015 W20 Turkey Communiqué said: Increase the number of women both in public and private sector leadership positions. 2016 W20 China Communiqué said: The potential for the participation in and…
Enterprising Women Conference 2020 and Challenges in Gender Issues Enterprising Women Conference 2020 Monica Smiley is the Publisher and CEO of Enterprising Women Magazine. Enterprising Women Magazine is being published in the last 20 years. Monica has been organizing the Enterprising Women of the Year Awards Celebration & Conference every…
Hand in hand for women now! The Impact of the Pandemic on Women Firstly, few facts from the introduction: Covid is costing women their jobs. Women account for 39% of the global employment but it is estimated that during the pandemic women will suffer 54% of the global job losses.…
