S
ustainable development, economic growth, and peace and security cannot
be achieved without gender equality, UN Deputy Secretary-General
Asha-Rose Migiro said on Monday, citing evidence of the beneficial
impact of women's empowerment.
"Numerous studies have found that companies with a more balanced representation of women and men in their top management teams considerably outperform those where such representation is low," she told the International Forum on the Role of Leadership in Promoting Gender Equality in Kigali, Rwanda, Martin Nesirky, the UN spokesman, told reporters here.
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Author: Association For Women's Rights in Development
