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BIAC Workshop on Gender Equality and Skills: Preparing All our Minds for Work: Girls, Women and Learning over a Lifetime

October 24, 2016 @ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm

This is the third BIAC workshop on gender equality, and will address the 3rd “E” of the OECD project on Gender: Education.  The workshop will present business initiatives that promote lifelong education and training of women, explore questions related to soft skills and career preference, and discuss how the digital economy and related skills are opening new pathways for women at work.   The workshop aims to deliver an evidence base from the business perspective contributing to OECD work in the field and to support the recommendations of the OECD Council Recommendation on Gender Equality. 

Participants will be from Business, Government and OECD.

BIAC Report:  The workshop will serve as a basis for a BIAC written report on gender equality education and skills.

Details

Date:
October 24, 2016
Time:
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
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Website:
http://biac.org/2016genderworkshop/

Organizer

Elizabeth Kim
Phone
212.703.5095
Email
ekim@uscib.org

Venue

OECD Conference Centre
2, rue André Pascal
Paris, 75775 France
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