Policy Based Initiatives Women's Empowerment Principles BPW South Africa: Minister Rob Davies launches Women’s Empowerment Principles at CEO's Breakfast
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The call for the advancement and empowerment of women in the workplace was enhanced by the launch of the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles, at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg on 4 July, 2011.
This was done jointly by the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), and Business and Professional Women, South Africa. (BPW). The Women’s Empowerment Principles provides a set of considerations to help the private sector focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Women’s Empowerment Principles, forged through an international multi stakeholder consultative process led by UN Women and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), provide a “gender lens” through which business can survey and analyse current initiatives, benchmarks and reporting practices. (Read more)