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Lack of women delegates at Davos

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Summary of story from This is Money, 27.1.11.

Firms attending the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting have missed a target to increase the number of female delegates by a country mile, highlighting the slow progress on gender inequality in the financial sector.

Based in Switzerland, the WEF is an independent global organisation that aims to improve the state of the world by engaging business, political and other leaders of society to shape government policies.

The meeting’s designed to allow world leaders, like politicians from the G20, to rethink their systems and explore strategies and solutions that have ‘positive transformational implications’.

The not-for-profit organisation insisted that the 100 firms attending should bring at least one woman out of their five permitted delegates, resulting in around 40 extra women attending.

But 20 of the companies gave up one of their tickets to the economic talking shop rather than bring a woman to the event, meaning that just 16 percent of delegates at the Swiss ski resort are women.

Participation in the elite meeting is by invitation only and limited to a selected few.

  1. Being very pernickety, but it should be a lack ‘of’ not ‘in’ women delegates – it’s Davos that is inadequate (in so many ways), not the delegates.

  2. Sorry my mistake.

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