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Issue No. LXXXIV, May 31, 2011 SPECIAL EDITION - 2011 GLOBAL SUMMIT OF WOMEN |
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A TRULY DIVERSE FORUM
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The First Lady of Malaysia, however, brought the first-ever
Malaysian delegation of top businesswomen numbering 65 who lobbied
successfully to host the 2013 Global Summit of Women in Kuala
Lampur!
Summit President Irene Natividad opens 2011 Global
Summit of Women joined by Turkey's Minister of State for Women Selma
Aliye Kavaf, First Lady of Namibia Penehupifo Pohamba, First Lady of
Turkey Emine Erdogan, Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Doan,
First Lady of Malaysia Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah, and Vice Chair of
All China Women's Federation Meng
Xiaosi. _________________________________________________________________ RECOGNIZING LEADERSHIP FOR WOMEN
For
the first time in its 21-year history, the Global Summit of Women
awarded the 2011 Global
Women’s Leadership Award to a man, UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon. The award
recognized his ongoing leadership to create a more inclusive United
Nations that now has more than a third of senior leadership made up
of women; to move the
private sector to proactively promote women through the UN Global
Compact; and to place
women’s issues front and center in the UN’s agenda through the
creation of UN Women, the super agency charged with addressing
women’s role in sustainable development. (Click to this link to view
the
Turkey’s Women’s
Leadership Award, selected by its Host Committee, went to
textile businesswoman, Aynur Bektas, who opened up factories in the
Anatolian region, known for its high rate of unemployment – a move
which has provided much needed jobs for women. Ms. Bektas also chairs the
Women’s Committee of TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges
of Turkey) and was former President of the Turkish Clothing
Manufacturers Association.
Recognizing Ministerial leadership in forging alliances with the
private sector to advance women’s economic opportunities, the
_________________________________________________________________ A FORUM FOR CEOs AND MANAGING DIRECTORS
An impressive number of chief executives and managing
directors participated in this year’s Summit, lending their
expertise in many sessions.
The CEO Forum
featured four top women in a dialogue led by the International Herald Tribune’s
Executive Editor Alison Smale on “Trends Affecting the
21st Century Workplace.” Serpil Timuray, CEO of
Vodafone Turkey; Carina Szpilka, CEO of ING Spain; M. Rosa Cassilas,
General Manager of Lexmark Mexico; and Dato Hazimah Zainuddin,
Founder and President of Hydrax Oil of Malaysia – all concurred on
new technology as impacting the way we work now and the future, new
situation of women who are more educated and with more opportunities
before them, new concepts of family that must now incorporate
working women into a traditional model of women as caretaker, and
new concept of business as being more holistic, incorporating not
only bottom line requirements but also responsibilities towards
stakeholders – communities, workers, consumers – all these factors
are changing the workplace and women’s role in it in the coming
decades.
In the session on “Leading Diversity from the Top”,
former Alcan CEO Dick Evans led a spirited discussion on how to
move the needle on women’s access to corporate leadership
roles. “Without
targets, you won’t get there,” stated Umran Beba, President of
Pepsico Asia Pacific region, emphatically. She added: “Set the targets, support
the women through mentorship or additional training, and create
awareness from the top down on the need for gender diversity.” Johan Raslan, Chairman of
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Malaysia concurred and said he supported
quotas for women on boards, because they will push for women’s
leadership further down into senior management. Ali Faramawy, head of Middle
East and Africa for Microsoft pointed out that sometimes companies
place unnecessary barriers such as the need for mobility among
senior managers that prevent women from accessing lead roles. “We must think of
diversified experiences that do not necessarily entail mobility to
enable women to move up,” he added. Wendy Murdock, one of
Mastercard’s leading women underscored the need to view investments
in women’s talents in the long term as key to a diversified
leadership. Other CEOs lent their voices to sessions on Corporate Social Responsibility, Team Building, the Youth Forum, the Entrepreneurial CEO Forum and many other parts of the Summit program, providing both critical insights and role modeling at the same time.
Featured session on "Leading Diversity from
the Top" with Former CEO of Alcan Dick Evans; Umran Beba, Asia
Pacific President of PepsiCo; Wendy Murdock, Chief Payment Integrity
Officer, MasterCard; Johan Raslan, Chairman of
PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia; and Ali Faramawy, Vice President,
Middle East and Africa, Microsoft. BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC TRENDS
With over 80% of the world’s population, 3/4ths of the earth’s land
mass and a majority young population, emerging markets will have a
63% share of the world’s GDP compared to a 37% share by developed
economies by 2030, according to Marisa Drew, Credit Suisse Managing
Director, who gave an informative briefing on Global Megatrends as
the Summit opened.
She projected population growth to 8 billion by 2025, with
many more people moving to urban areas, creating megacities with
heavy demands on energy, healthcare, and infrastructure.
Scarcity of water will impact 60% of the world, according to
Ms. Drew – a point echoed and elaborated upon in a On women’s economic participation, addressing the gender gap in men’s and women’s employment would boost GDP by 14% in emerging markets and 9% in the UK/US, based on a Goldman Sachs study. To access Marisa Drew’s full presentation, click to this link http://www.globewomen.org/summit/2011/ppt%20-%20drew.pdf.
ENGAGING YOUTH LEGACIES OF WOMEN
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