Women Leadership Summit Discusses Opportunities For Women in Business and Politics

NUR-SULTAN – The Kazakh cash hosted the Women’s Summit for U.S. govt exchange alumnae on April 2, reported Kazinform.

The occasion collected woman leaders in company, technological innovation, media, and civil modern society to go over women’s empowerment and to foster collaboration to address societal issues.

Judy Kuo, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan, observed that the support for Kazakh girls in small business and entrepreneurship as a result of a amount of applications is a priority for the U.S. Embassy. The exchange alumni of the Countrywide Alumni Community are “changemakers in their communities and the U.S. Embassy is proud to aid their successes to benefit Kazakh communities.”

Aigul Kuspan, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Overseas Affairs, Protection and Security of Mazhilis of Parliament, spoke about the achievements and challenges of gender coverage implementation. “Women’s empowerment is a priority on the Kazakh legislative actions. The govt has produced an institutional and regulatory framework for the powerful implementation of gender plan,” she stated.

The Central Asian region however faces some difficulties associated to gender equality. “Women working are continue to paid out much less than adult males. In Kazakhstan, ladies receive 25 percent less than adult men on normal. 20 a long time back, this determine stood at 38 percent,” Kuspan included.

Lawful defense of girls and girls from violence also poses some complications, particularly the prevention of sexual harassment at office and domestic violence.

UN Ladies Representative in Kazakhstan Maria Dotsenko welcomed Kazakhstan’s adoption of its 1325 Nationwide Action Program and modern abolition of the listing of occupations prohibited for gals, and shown a variety of ideas to market gender equality and empowerment of girls and ladies in the nation. She called to develop a women’s expertise pool in Kazakhstan for even further appointment to management positions in the community services and welcomed the gender quota with a minimum threshold of 30% for women of all ages in the quasi-general public sector that was released previous calendar year.

Other problems talked about at the meeting bundled women’s empowerment in politics, the media, entrepreneurship, science and technologies.