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What Was Presented ...
Summit
Program and Speeches
What the Participants
are Saying...
"The Summit was
perfectly organized and professionally conducted. It is the best
opportunity for networking with like-minded women in business. One cannot
get a better platform for meeting women leaders and entrepreneurs from so many
countries. It was the ideal forum for test marketing of my products and it
was grand success."
- Farah Khan, India
"The (Summit)
once again confirmed what I strongly believe: that the only geographical
barriers that exist for our projects are those that we allow to exist."
-Donna Kelley, Spain
"What I found most valuable was
meeting and networking with such high caliber, wonderful women. It was a
chance to connect with women whom I would not otherwise have had the chance to meet, and to learn
something about cultures and countries far removed from my own. A truly
enlightening and mind-expanding experience."
-Elizabeth Scott, Hong Kong
"I certainly left Barcelona feeling
empowered, renewed and ready to face new challenges and tackle them head-on.
The powerful testimonies of fellow women, their achievement and zeal is alone
worthwhile being there."
-Inge K. Zaamwani, Namibia
I was very much inspired by the synergy of
talents, capabilities, experience, dynamics, and initiatives represented in
Barcelona."
-Nela Milijic, Croatia
2002 Award Winner
Meet the winner of the 2002 American Express
Global Leadership Award given at the Global Summit of Women,
Begona Zunzunegui, Founder of Becara
Biography
Summit
Outcomes...
WHAT THE 2002 SUMMIT ACHIEVED:
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Raised $10,000 to be used as microenterprise loans by Afghan women seeking to
reenter their country's economy
*Created a Technology Committee to develop ways of continuing the sharing of
best practices among Summit participants and other women entrepreneurs globally
*Released
a report through its Corporate Women Directors International project on Spanish
women corporate directors in Spain's top 300 Companies to establish a national
benchmark to measure progress.
More
on this report
*Agreed to
develop a compendium of corporate best practices in creating equal
opportunities for women.
SEE WHAT SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS ACCOMPLISHED...
The greatest opportunity
for our association was to participate in the creation of a confederation of
Mediterranean women entrepreneurs’ associations."
-Danielle Rousseau, President, Dirigeantes, France
More Participant Accomplishments
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Global Summit of Women
2002
Barcelona, Spain
July 11-13, 2002
"PIVOTAL ISSUES IMPACTING WOMEN'S
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"
What the Press is Saying...
Editorial Cartoon From El Pais
(Spain's national newspaper), July 11, 2002
Translation:
The Woman on the Stool is
writing: Barcelona, 12th Global Summit of Women
The Men:
READY; WHEN I SAY “THREE” WE GIVE A KICK TO THE STOOL
From El Pais, July 12, 2002
From Reuters, July 12, 2002
"Women of the world meet
in Spain to smash glass ceiling"
BARCELONA,
Spain - Six hundred women from 76 countries met in Barcelona yesterday to talk
about how to increase the economic power of women in a male-dominated world.
The “Global Summit of Women” has
been described as a “Davos for women,” after the high-powered meetings of the
world’s mostly male movers and shakers at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
The number of delegates is the largest since the first meeting in Montreal 12
years ago, said summit director Irene Natividad.
Full Article
From Associated Press,
July 11, 2002
"Women discuss business opportunities in international marketplace at Summit in
Barcelona"
Barcelona, Spain (AP) Although women-run businesses represent more than 30
percent of those in Europe and the United States, women still lag far behind men
in earnings and in job status; in developing countries, the disparity is even
greater.
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