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Women on Boards, a model program for empowering women
4-1-2018
In partnership with the Lebanese League for Businesswomen, the International Finance Corporation IFC, launched yesterday and for the first time in Lebanon and the MENA region, a pilot program for women on boards of directors entitled, ‘Women On Boards – WOB’. The initiative comes as part of the efforts to promote equal opportunities between men and women, as well as, empower women through building their capacities. The new program focuses on capacity building, training and rehabilitation of women in preparation for assuming leadership positions, including corporate board membership, and becoming active partners in decision making and in the entrepreneurship and business sectors. To note, the criteria adopted to select participants in the program was based on the advanced educational level of the applicant, her leadership in entrepreneurship and her contribution to the local community. The program, to recall, was inaugurated with a series of workshops held at Le Grey Hotel, Beirut, with the participation of international experts, trainers and specialists in women empowerment and entrepreneurship. The activity which targeted 20 women in senior executive posts focused on the different brain functions between men and women and gender stereotypes, and on how women on boards are distinguished, as well as on the importance of overcoming barriers to women’s access to leadership roles. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Hayat, Al Diyar, January 4, 2018)
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