How Women empowerment can drive economic growth
By Opinion
By Celeste Le Roux
While women empowerment is undoubtedly benefitting from being a key talking point on the public agenda over the past few years, 2021 cannot simply be another year where gender equality is confined to ladiesâ lunches and empty platitudes. Things must change.
While there are many commendable women empowerment programmes sponsored by both the public and private sector it is debatable how effective these really are. It is now time to take stock of the multitude of programmes in the market and use the data to guide us on which elements are most effective to providing women with real opportunities to compete in business and in the workplace. At the moment we are doing âlots of stuffâ but based on the statistics the numbers of women breaking through the glass ceiling in both business and male dominated industries are nowhere near where they need to be to resemble real tangible change.