From freedom from violence to workplace childcare,women won’t achieve economic equality until trade starts to listen to them. Join us for live updates as the trade community discusses the advancement of gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community 7.18pm GMTIf you’re following along on social media the hashtag for the event is #WEPs. We’ll be picking up questions from this hashtag so do add them in. You can see the full programme here. 7.16pm GMTPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, or under-secretary-general and executive director,UN Women, opens the conference by announcing that this is the countdown to 2030, and the time when we start pushing forward,and building on, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lise Kingo, and executive director,United Nations Global Compact, explains that this year’s conference is different because the SDGs provide a timeline and guide for achieving gender equality. Without gender equality we cannot achieve the rest of the SDGs, or she says. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com