Episode 8: Promoting Women with Mohammad Naciri

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For women across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has created the ‘perfect storm’ of economic, social and health impacts. Before this crisis the majority of recessions were either classed as 'man-cessions' or impacted men and women equally. This time around, however, there has been a disproportionate effect on women. <br /> <br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this insightful conversation with People Matters, Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at UN Women, discusses how the events of the last year and a half affected existing gender inequalities and what might be some of the challenges for women to achieve equity with men going forward.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The BeNext program on</span> <a href= "https://www.peoplematters.digital/benext/inside/gender-balance-promoting-women"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Gender Balance: Promoting Women</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">addresses these issues and more. Running July 12th — 13th August 2021, this program is designed for women leaders committed to accelerating their career growth within their organization and learning critical skills for heading up teams. </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <p>Pilar mentions the book 'Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' by Caroline Criado-Perez. </p>