1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment Creating Equal Opportunities in the World of Work
  • Date:
  • 25-26 May 2017
  • Location:
  • Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Organiser:
  • Lithuania
  • Event Type:
  • ASEM Initiative & Other Activity
Ensure equality and reduce gender gaps in political, economic, corporate and public life

The 1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment: Creating Equal Opportunities in the World of Work was hold on 25-26 May 2017 at the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The conference focused on:

  • successful policies and legal provisions that ASEM Partner countries may wish to share with others;
  • institutional mechanisms, including national, regional and local level that ensure equality and reduce gender gaps in political, economic, corporate and public life;
  • women leaders and achievers who empower other women work/life reconciliation policies and initiatives;
    new technologies enabling gender equality;
  • sharing of unpaid work at home;
  • ways to address occupational segregation, advance education for women, including financial literacy and incentives to choose “non-traditional” spheres such as IT for women and nursing, care and teaching for men

It was co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, and the Mykolas Romeris University.

Documents

ASEM Thematic Declarations Vilnius Declaration of the 1st ASEM Conference on Women’s Economic Empowerment

Concept Note 1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment - Concept Paper

Agenda/Programme 1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment - Agenda

List of Participants 1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment - Delegates List

Administration Circular 1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment - Administrative Arrangements

Registration Form 1st ASEM Conference on Women's Economic Empowerment - Registration Form

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