Agentina 2017 - Press Conference Driving gender partity in Latin America
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2017-04-06

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Press Conference
Driving gender parity in Latin America 
Advancing gender parity is critical to the growth of nations and the development and stability of societies. Latin America has huge potential to increase female participation at all levels of employment given it has relatively high rates of female education, but more action is needed by both the public and private sectors on the ground. 

In this press conference leaders from the Forum and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will outline how their collaboration on gender parity, announced at the Forum on Latin America 2016, has been supporting progress on economic gender parity in the region, based on a model of public-private collaboration developed by the Forum in 2012.

They will be joined by senior business and government leaders from Argentina to announce plans for a new Gender Parity Task Force in the country, to be launched this year in partnership with the Forum and the IDB.

-Cecilia Giordano, Chief Executive Officer, Mercer, Argentina

-Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC

-Marcos Peña, Chief of Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina

-Carolina Stanley (Confirmed), Minister of Social Development of Argentina

Moderated by
Richard Samans (Confirmed), Head of the Centre for the Global Agenda, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum