A 2015 McKinsey Global Institute report found that countries could add $12 trillion to global GDP by 2025 by advancing women’s equality. Building on this work, McKinsey launched another report, The Future of Women at Work, earlier this month at the 2019 Women Deliver Conference – four days of learning, sharing, awareness-raising, and partnership-building to accelerate progress toward global sustainable development for women and girls.
Earlier this month, 6,000 decision-makers, implementers, researchers, advocates, and private sector representatives from 169 countries descended upon Vancouver, Canada for the 2019 Women Deliver Conference – four days of learning, sharing, awareness-raising, and partnership-building to accelerate progress toward global sustainable development for women and girls.
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World is proud to announce the launch of our Gender Policy, which documents our commitment to gender equality and the application of a comprehensive gender perspective to all of our work.
The challenges of this world can be daunting. Poverty. Homelessness. Conflict. Violence. Starvation. Suffering. Sadness. Greed. Fear. Meanwhile, technological progress has been propelling the world into an era of unimaginable possibilities and unprecedented prosperity. So why, in a world such as this, why are so many people left out? The injustices of this world can be daunting—and at least the daunted have the luxury of time to worry about them.
In development contexts, women are often considered to be a singular unified cohort that can be grouped together and served based solely on their gender. However, women are not a monolith. This overly simplistic classification interferes with the development community’s ability to serve the most vulnerable populations of women. Intersectionality broadens the concept of “women” and brings visibility to women with differential identities.
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