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In this month’s Closing the Gender Wealth Gap Forum: Exploring Models of Shared Wealth, we discussed how cooperatives, or co-ops, are helping communities build wealth and improve economic security together. Watch the session recording here: https://lnkd.in/eE3SkanX

#PostBudgetReactions: "The Budget 2024 had some heartening developments, especially the support extended to marginalized groups with a particular emphasis on propelling gender parity on all fronts." Read more: https://lnkd.in/ePBnXqmk Hardika Shah Kinara Capital #BudgetWithTG #Budget2024 #NirmalaSitharaman #UnionBudget #UnionBudget2024

We are gravely concerned about the recent rising cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) targeted at young women. Key among the issues that we are discussing this afternoon in the Government Performance and Delivery Roadshow at the Ministry of Gender, Culture, The Arts and Heritage is GBV. On the 13th day, evaluating the ministry's performance and delivery of other programmes and projects that are aligned with the Bottom Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). #betaplan #endfemicide #stopfemicide

Looking forward to speaking at a panel hosted by the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development at #WSIS later today about the digital gender divide and how policymakers and others can address it. https://lnkd.in/g6wTJjnp #digitaldivide #genderequality

Straight talk from Commissioner Dr Niki Vincent on gender considerations when designing policies, programs and services 👏 👏 👏 👏 Want to know how to do it right? 📚 Find out more about Gender Impact Assessments here: 👉https://ow.ly/3acf50SBV1O

📉The Global Gender Gap Report 2024 measures gender parity across 146 countries, focusing on economic participation, education, health, and political empowerment. ❓Did you know we’re only 68.5% toward full gender parity? At this pace, it’ll take 134 years to close the global gap. 📖 Read the report to see how your country is doing and what needs to change https://lnkd.in/eAawKNWG

Gender impact assessments are an effective tool for a systematic consideration of gender when developing policies, programs and services.

The World Economic Forum predicts that at the current rate of progress it will take 162 years for women to have political equality with men, 169 years to reach economic equality, and even in education, where much progress has been made, they predict it will still take 16 years for women to achieve equal outcomes with men across the globe. 😣 #IWD24 #genderequity #genderpaygap #genderequality https://lnkd.in/gesG4m2R.

The most difficult part of digesting this report is the prediction that it will take 134 years for true gender parity to come to fruition. #genderequity #equalpay #parity #gendergap

👓☕📖 #WeekendReading: The World Economic Forum recently released its Global Gender Gap 2024 report benchmarking the current state and evolution of gender parity across four dimensions including economic participation and opportunity. The report references #WomenBizLaw data on equal pay legislation and makes the case for governments focusing on gender in their budgetary cycle. Read their report ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eHPBuHbA #worldeconomicforum