Thailand embraces gender-equal business as key to sustainable growth

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by Tarin Angskul

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - A roadmap for Thailand’s journey to gender equality in business was presented at an event in Bangkok. It lays out a guideline for policies and business practices to improve woman’s empowerment in the workplace and, by extension, the country’s progress towards sustainable social and economic development as a whole.

 

Titled “Inclusive Policy means Sustainable Growth,” the event was organized by WeEmpowerAsia, a UN Woman program funded by the European Union, in collaboration with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of small and Medium-sized Enterprise Promotion (OSMEP), and the regional non-profit Kenan Foundation Asia.

 

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The event is one of the milestones for women in Asia and around the world. It presented the idea of “Building Pathways to Gender Equality and Sustainability" through the "Women’s Empowerment Principle: Thailand Policy Brief" which is a guide for businesses to strengthen gender outcomes. The roadmap lays a crucial foundation for the implementation of policies and initiatives to: 1) advance accountability and reporting of gender indicators for listed companies; 2) promote woman’s corporate leadership; and 3) advance the participation of women’s owned and women-led business in the national and global supply chains of governments and corporations.

 

Sarah Knibbs, Officer-in-Charge, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, hopes the "Women’s Empowerment Principle: Thailand Policy Brief" will serve as a guide for policymakers, and other sectors to incentivize and regulate gender-responsive business conduct. Gender equality does not only mean good business but inclusive and sustainable growth where all groups of society can contribute.

 

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[TooMuchTime]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

UN Woman program funded by the European Union

This is all you need to know in order to not support this.

Businesses have no problem hiring women.  They will hire those who are competent and provide the maximum value to their company.

 

No need for diversity hires, only hire on competence.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, TooMuchTime said:

Businesses have no problem hiring women.  They will hire those who are competent and provide the maximum value to their company.

And fund their way up the ladder.

[mikebell]

It won't catch on in Thailand - the police will never allow it.

[mudpuppy]

Merit goes out the window while being replaced with... "Gimme Gimme Gimme because I have tits!" 

 

The best person for a job (- regardless of sex/race/etc... -) should be hired for a job... Otherwise they are just a liability to the other workers - and in the long term the company.

 

 

[mtls2005]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

A roadmap for Thailand’s journey to gender equality

Why am I reminded of the junta's roadmap to democracy and twenty-year "plan"?

 

 

[mtls2005]

4 minutes ago, mudpuppy said:

Merit goes out the window while being replaced with

 

Sorry, do you live in thailand?

 

Merit was never inside the house.

 

Now if nepotism were defenestrated you might have a winner?