MARY KAY INC ADVOCATES FOR ADVANCING WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, GENDER EQUALITY

 

KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 (Bernama) -- Mary Kay Inc has furthered its commitment to advancing gender parity by releasing a position paper welcoming the European Commission’s Gender Equality Strategy for 2020 – 2025 and by joining the Generation Equality Forum Global Action Coalitions.

According to the European Union: “The Strategy presents policy objectives and actions to make significant progress by 2025 towards a gender-equal Europe.

“The goal is a Union where women and men, girls and boys, in all their diversity, are free to pursue their chosen path in life, have equal opportunities to thrive, and can equally participate in and lead our European society.”

Meanwhile, Chief Legal & Diversity Officer at Mary Kay, Julia Simon said: “Discriminatory laws, gender bias and stereotyping, violence against women and girls - these are all global issues and must be tackled in partnership with the public and private sectors and civil society organisations across the world.”

According to a statement, this month, Mary Kay has also joined the ‘Drivers of change’ Program at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, France (June 30 - July 2).

Simon has participated to a panel titled ‘Building a Transformative Strategy for Gender-Responsive Procurement’, aiming at creating awareness of the disproportionately complex and interconnected barriers on women’s entrepreneurship and promoting gender-responsive procurement.

At the Paris Forum, Mary Kay also joined four of the Generation Equality Action Coalitions through policy, programmatic, and advocacy commitments: Economic Justice and Rights; Feminist Action for Climate Justice; Gender-based Violence and Innovation and Technology.

A total of 50,000 people virtually engaged in the Forum which gathered 1,000 commitment-makers, recorded US$40 billion of investments for gender equality in support of a five-year plan to act for equal across six areas of action. (US$1 = RM4.232)

More details at www.marykay.com.

-- BERNAMA