WOMEN’S VOICES IN THE ECONOMY
The seminal 2015 McKinsey Global Institute study found that advancing women’s equality could add $12 trillion to the global economy by 2025. It is now nearly the end of 2022, and while there has been progress, the workplace remains severely unequal for women in the United States and around the world. The COVID-19 crisis highlighted these inequities. We know that an unequal economy creates a weak economy and that a strong economy needs full participation. Policymakers and the private sector can rebuild more equitably. They can choose to strengthen workplace protections for the most vulnerable, increase access to technology for the self-employed, elevate more women to leadership roles, and support women’s entrepreneurship.
SPEAKERS
REEMA NANAVATY, Self Employed Women’s Association of India
MÓNICA RAMÍREZ, Co-Founder and President, The Latinx House; Justice for Migrant Women
JENNIFER HYMAN, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Rent the Runway
AMY TU, President, International and Chief Administrative Officer, Tyson Foods
JENNIFER KLEIN, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Gender Policy Council