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EGYPT: MIDDLE EAST GENDER EQUALITY GETS A BOOST WITH NEW GENDER PARITY GROUP.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database, May, 2008
Fifty influential female and male leaders have formed a Middle East Gender Parity Group to tackle discrimination and close the gap between the sexes. "This is the Middle East's first high-level group of both female and male decision-makers working together to achieve gender equality in the workplace, education, politics and health, and to better engage the talent of the region's female population, said Saadia Zahidi, Head of the World Economic Forum's Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme.
Launched at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm El Sheikh, the Forum's Middle East Gender Parity Group is a multistakeholder community of 50 leaders; 25 women and 25 men from business, politics, academic, media and civil society. This new move comes as it...
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