Women Leadership Summit Discusses Opportunities For Women in Business and Politics

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

The event collected woman leaders in business, technology, media, and civil society to explore women’s empowerment and to foster collaboration to handle societal troubles.

Judy Kuo, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan, famous that the assistance for Kazakh women in company and entrepreneurship as a result of a quantity of courses is a precedence for the U.S. Embassy. The trade alumni of the Countrywide Alumni Network are “changemakers in their communities and the U.S. Embassy is very pleased to aid their successes to reward Kazakh communities.”

Aigul Kuspan, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Protection and Security of Mazhilis of Parliament, spoke about the achievements and troubles of gender plan implementation. “Women’s empowerment is a priority on the Kazakh legislative actions. The authorities has made an institutional and regulatory framework for the effective implementation of gender plan,” she explained.

The Central Asian region however faces some problems connected to gender equality. “Women operating are still compensated much less than guys. In Kazakhstan, girls earn 25 p.c less than males on common. Twenty decades back, this determine stood at 38 %,” Kuspan extra.

Authorized safety of girls and ladies from violence also poses some problems, particularly the avoidance of sexual harassment at place of work and domestic violence.

UN Gals Consultant in Kazakhstan Maria Dotsenko welcomed Kazakhstan’s adoption of its 1325 National Action Strategy and recent abolition of the listing of occupations prohibited for women, and detailed a selection of recommendations to boost gender equality and empowerment of ladies and ladies in the state. She named to make a women’s expertise pool in Kazakhstan for additional appointment to leadership positions in the community service and welcomed the gender quota with a minimum amount threshold of 30% for gals in the quasi-general public sector that was introduced previous calendar year.

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