The INSEAD Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, founding Academic Partner of the Summit, will host the “Gender and the Future of Work” forum in collaboration with the INSEAD Gender Initiative and Cartier Women's Initiative.
For the fourth consecutive year as academic partner of ChangeNow Summit, the INSEAD Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, will host an interactive forum in collaboration with the INSEAD Gender Initiative, and the Cartier Women’s Initiative, to discuss ‘Gender and the Future of Work’.
Taking place on 21st May 2022 at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, France and available online, the forum will bring together leading academics, impact entrepreneurs and other practitioners to discuss how recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is giving businesses an opportunity reset and restructure, including the chance to create a more gender inclusive workplace.
Katell Le Goulven, Executive Director of the INSEAD Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, said, “INSEAD is proud to be a longstanding academic partner of ChangeNOW, the world’s largest event to tackle the planet’s biggest challenges, co-founded by INSEAD alumni. This year, we look forward to joining force with Cartier Women Initiative to help push the agenda and build bridges between the entrepreneurs, business leaders and policy-makers to accelerate change for a better world.”
The opening session will unveil the results of a recent INSEAD survey aimed at understanding women’s significant contributions to bettering society through championing environmental and social sustainability and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender balance. This survey is the starting point that subsequent sessions will build upon.
The three-hour programme, designed in the style of an INSEAD workshop, aims to engage and guide the audience from academic theory to applied action points. The programme consists of multiple hybrid interactive sessions, live polls and discussions facilitated by INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the Academic Director of the INSEAD Gender Initiative, Zoe Kinias, along with the Asia Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society and the Executive Director of the INSEAD Gender Initiative, Dr. Vinika Rao.
Professor Zoe Kinias commented, "Businesses and societies need to leverage the best contributions of all people to rebuild a post-Covid or Covid-endemic future. This requires workplaces being secure, equitable and inclusive. But data have clearly shown the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women, so we must come together to rebuild. We look forward to leading this dialogue and providing actionable ideas for the participants who have the power to develop gender balance.”
Dr. Vinika Rao added, “In this interactive gender forum, we will hear from academic and business experts and learn from the participants who are facing this challenge in their own organisations. Together, we will arrive at the best practices and interventions that can help prevent the pandemic from derailing decades of hard-earned progress towards gender balance.”
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