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Corporate Women In Leadership
How to create high-value strategies for career growth
A day is not enough! Women should be celebrated every day for being able to hold down the fort and constantly striving to come out on top against all odds. Since the dawn of time, gender disparity has plagued our society nonstop. In the past, men had been known to hunt for food, while the female catered to the home. The modern day woman with an adventurous spiritandathirstforgreatnesshas created her own path and raised her voice through empowerment platforms such as Corporate Women in Leadership. Alpha women is what we have chosen to call them, but then again, they are known as women of valour, women who strive!
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The need to close the gender disparity is becoming even more urgent. The Sustainable Develop ment Agenda, adopted by UN Member States in 2015, set a 2030 deadline for the achievement of gender equality and the empower ment of all women and girls. Now, with under 10 years left to meet it, the world is not on track. Corpo rate, government, and individual actors should make efforts at their respective levels to help achieve this goal.
As an initiative of Fabafriq Media Group, the Corporate Women in Leadership Summit is geared towards raising women to their full potential. It gathers corporate women from all walks of life to share their experiences as well as strategies that have gotten them where they are today, lending them a platform to interact, network, and grow. Working in accordance with the popular saying ‘UBUNTU’ (I am, because you are), the Corporate Women in Leadership network has been shaping and lifting career women for seven years. In the last seven years, the Corporate Women in Leadership Summit has hosted inspiring women in leadership conferences in different parts of Africa.
Both initiatives have summits that are facilitated by self-achieving, A-list speakers with diverse ways of thinking, who tackle prominent problems faced by women in the corporate environment and have a certain level of respect in businesses. "The goal is to work in three simple steps.
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