The World Health Organization (WHO) called for strengthening women s leadership for an equal future in a post-coronavirus pandemic world.Marking International Women s Day and echoing this year s theme, "Women in leadership: Achieving an .
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Türeci told a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing that the lack of gender equality in patient care, medical research and the biopharma industry is “obvious every day”. She added: “The higher the ranks, the more value-destroying [is] the lost opportunity of mobilising precious talent.”
According to WHO data, women make up 70% of the global health and care workforce, but occupy just 25% of decision-making roles.
Türeci said: “At BioNTech, women make up 54% of our total workforce and 45% of top management. We like to think that being a gender-balanced team has been critical to making the seemingly impossible possible – developing a Covid-19 vaccine within 11 months without shortcuts.”