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Our Mission
Through the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme, the World Economic Forum is committed to promoting women’s leadership and closing global gender gaps. The programme strives to increase the participation of women in the Forum’s activities by ensuring their involvement as members in communities and inviting women leaders to be active contributors to the global dialogue.
The programme also aims to to monitor progress of countries through benchmarking tools that measure the global gender gap and to showcase best practices in the business world for increasing gender diversity. This unique content is used to promote dialogue and catalyze action through Gender Parity Groups – multi-stakeholder communities of highly influential leaders (50% women and 50% men) committed to closing gender gaps.
Global Gender Gap Appeal
President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, launched the Forum's International Women's Day appeal for ideas to help close the global gender gap. Business, civil society and religious leaders - as well as members of the public - responded with their solutions.
- Watch the video responses on YouTube and upload your ideas
- Read more about the appeal in the press release
- Blog Post: Closing the Gender Gap on International Women's Day - and Every Day
Community Engagement
Global Gender Parity Group: The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Parity Group is a multistakeholder community of 100 highly influential and committed leaders – 50 women and 50 men – from business, politics, academia, media and civil society who believe that companies and countries will benefit by addressing the gender gap and optimizing the flow of talent.
A Summary of the outcomes from this year's Global Gender Parity Group meeting is now available
Regional Gender Parity Groups: The World Economic Forum’s Regional Gender Parity Groups are multistakeholder communities committed to closing the gender gap, each consisting of 50 leaders (25 women and 25 men). The four Regional Gender Parity Groups are in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Women Leaders Community: The Women Leaders Community is drawn from the female participants of the various stakeholder groups convened at the World Economic Forum, brought together to collectively engage in dialogue and address current gender and diversity issues.
Benchmarking
Global Gender Gap Report: The flagship report produced annually by the Women Leaders Programme provides a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender disparities around the world and aims to serve as a tool for benchmarking and tracking gender inequalities based on economic, political, education and health criteria.
Corporate Best Practices: This new study will assess the practices that successfully promote gender equality in the corporate world by conducting comprehensive surveys of the 100 largest companies in each of the OECD and BRIC countries. This new venture will be launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009.
Internal Diversity Practices
The World Economic Forum has established a strong record of increasing gender equality in its activities, most notably at the Annual Meeting where women’s participation has risen from 9% in 2001 to 17% in 2008. It is the Forum’s goal to maximize women’s participation at the Annual Meeting and regional events, drawing from the pool of the highest-level women leaders in business, politics, academia, media and civil society.
Contact Information
For further information, please contact womenleaders@weforum.org.
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