09/02/2018
I was gifted with a voice to help people, create change for themselves and women as a whole. This is the voice of Irene Natividad, Founder and President of the Global Summit of Women, which this year will celebrate its 25th anniversary in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This year’s theme is “Creative Women, Creative Economies”. It will certainly require a huge amount of creativity, solidarity, new thinking, cultural shift, societal transformation to overcome the worst global financial crisis we have experienced since the Great Depression. This will not happen if: women continue facing barriers to achieving their full potential women continue earning only three-quarters as much as men even when they have the same level of education, and hold the same occupation women continue being locked out of leadership positions, making up only 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs or accounting only for 24% of senior management positions around the world