Globalization

The Calvert Group, Ltd., one of the largest families of socially responsible funds in the United States and UNIFEM launched The Calvert Women’s Principles (CWP), the first global code of conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing, and investing in women worldwide. Since their launch, the CWP have been a major catalyst for dialogue and heightened awareness of workplace issues affecting women. They reflect Calvert’s view that there is a strong business case for gender equality.
 

Organization that takes a very international approach to work with others to move from 20th century mindsets, management styles and marketing approaches to more progressive 21st century forms -- this time including women.
 

The Global Private Sector Leaders Forum is a group of influencial businesspeople and companies committed to promoting women’s economic empowerment. These leaders understand the importance of women’s contributions to business profitability and to the communities in which they operate. They are creating economic opportunities for women as an integral part of core business, community engagement and corporate diversity and inclusion.
 

This Action Plan seeks to advance women’s economic empowerment in the World Bank Group’s client countries in order to promote shared growth and accelerate the implementation of Millennium Development Goal 3 (MDG3- promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment). The Plan would commit the World Bank to intensify and scale up gender mainstreaming in the economic sectors over four years, in partnership with client countries, donors, and other development agencies. The Bank group and its partners would increase resources devoted to gender issues in operations and technical assistance, in Results-Based Initiatives (RBIs), and in policy-relevant research and statistics. An assessment at the end of the four-year period would determine whether to extend the Action Plan’s timeframe.
 

Don’t underestimate the power of the purse.
Higher female participation in the workforce can help mitigate
some of Japan’s demographic pressures and raise the long-term
trend growth rate. Womenomics is likely to become a secular
investment theme, and we identify potential beneficiaries.

The Leaders in a Global Economy project grew out of the concerns of a group of companies.
These companies had already identified the growing need for attracting, developing and
retaining women as a key competitive business strategy, and they had been working on doing
so for a number of years. Despite their progress, however, they felt there were still many challenges—
both subtle and overt—to overcome. They wanted to better understand these challenges
on a global basis so they could develop new approaches and strategies to address the
advancement of both women and men.