Dear WEPs and WE EMPOWER-G7 community,

We are excited to bring your attention to a few updates.
Survey on the WE EMPOWER G7 programme
Upcoming: Two exciting webinars on Parentsmart employers and women in tourism
WEPs taxonomy
WEPs Forum 2021 - organized by our sister programme, Win-Win

Warm regards,
The WE EMPOWER-G7/WEPs Team

SurveyWe would like to invite you to complete a Perception Survey on the “ We Empower G7: Promoting
women’s economic empowerment at work through responsible business conduct in G7
countries", funded by the European Union.
Your views, experience and suggestions will make an important contribution to the evaluation. We
would be grateful if you could complete the survey by 4 June 2021.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WEG7_EN
In case you have any questions concerning this survey or the evaluation more generally, pleasecontact us at: brussels@particip.eu

Upcoming Webinars
Parentsmart Employers
Getting the Return on Investment
This dialogue will introduce the idea of how to be
Parentsmart at work, and what Parentsmart employers cangain from supporting working parents, both in terms ofcompetence development as well as other wins and KPIs.
It will also provide insights on how to engage leaders androle models.
The session will feature Tiina Bruno, Founder of theSwedish concept Parentsmart Employers, and Katarina
Matson, Culture and Diversity at Volvo Cars.
Read about it and register for the event here.

Women's Economic Empowerment in theTourism Sector of the Indian Ocean Rim Region
As part of the Australian Government funded
project on Promoting Women's Economic
Empowerment in the Indian Ocean Rim, and incollaboration with the Indian Ocean Rim
Association, UN Women is producing a series ofwebinars on the WEPs.
This webinar will showcase best practices ofcompanies in the tourism sector in the Indian
Ocean Rim region in promoting women's economic
empowerment and gender equality. Guest speakers will include Velma Corcoran, Regional Lead for
Middle East Africa at Airbnb in South Africa and Sara King, the General Manager of Purpose at
Intrepid Travel in Australia.
Read about it and register for the event here.

WEPs Taxonomy
We have updated the industry taxonomy to refresh the one from 10 years ago, and added a few
more options in terms of the number of employees in your company.
To change your industry or number of employees, please go to your company profile page and makethe update there. If you do not yet have a company profile page, please see here how to create
one.

WEPs Forum 2021
Registration already started! "WEPs Forum
2021: Reaffirming the commitment to an equal
future" is the most important event related toWEPs within the “Win-Win: Gender equality
means good business” programme implementedin Latin America and the Caribbean
It will take place on 9 to 10 June from 2pm to6pm GMT-3 (BR-ARG-URY), completely online
and free of charge.
The WEPs Forum – financed by the European
Union - is a unique opportunity to learn more

about gender mainstreaming in corporate
management – aligned to the WEPs. It will bring
together more than 40 speakers from different
countries in Latin America and the Caribbeanand Europe. It is a key event for those whowant to learn more about best practices topromote gender equality, women's economic
empowerment and diverse and respectful
workplaces.
Open registration: www.wepsforum2021.com# WEPsForum2021 #WinWin #WinWin#GanarGanar

Thank you for reading!
If you have any questions you can email us at weps@unwomen.org.

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