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Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender Equality

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General WEPs Event Coverage (p. 5)

General Media Coverage

When companies know more but say less about their gender gap – By Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 13 March 2015

Hillary Clinton’s email upstaged her big speech on women’s rights – By Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 11 March 2015

Clinton aims to quiet uproar – By Anne Gearan amd Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 11 March 2015

Hillary Clinton: I used one email 'for convenience' – By Alexandra Jaffe and Dan Merica, CNN, 11 March 2015

Gender equality discussed at UN with attendance of Hillary Clinton – CIHAN, 11 March 2015

Removing barriers top priority to help women, girls: UN chief – Xinhua, 11 March 2015

Equality means business: UN urges private sector to help close gender gap – UN News Centre, 10 March 2015

Hillary Clinton: Never been better time to be born female (Video) – CNBC, 10 March 2015

Top UN Official Signal Support for Clinton If She Runs for Office – By Cara Anna, Associated Press, 10 March 2015

Clinton defends use of personal email as secretary of state – By Oliver Laughland and Paul Owen, The Guardian, 10 March 2015

Corporations Committed to Gender Diversity Asked to Sign on to U.N. Women’s Empowerment Principle (Video) – 3BL Media, The Minute, 10 March 2015

Your Tuesday Briefing - Latest News: Ferguson Courts, Republicans Rebuked, N.F.L. Salary Cap – By Adeel Hassan, NYT Now, 10 March 2015

Hillary Clinton Defends E-mail Practices, and Draws a Line – By Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg Politics, 10 March 2015

Hillary Clinton Addresses Latest Political Controversy: "No One Wants Their Personal Emails Made Public" – By Lily Harrison, E!Online, 10 March 2015

The Role of Business in Advancing Women’s Empowerment – By Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen, Vice President, Partnership Development and Research, BSR and Lauren Shields,Associate, HERproject, BSR, BSR Blog, 8 March 2015

Opinion: Clinton may play the gender card right into the White House – By Darrell Delamaide, MarketWatch, 25 February 2015

Clinton ’16 Would Give Gender More of a Role Than Clinton ’08 Did – By Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 24 February 2015

Hillary Clinton to Headline United Nations Women's Conference – By Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg Politics, 19 February 2015

Hillary Clinton to focus on women's rights in upcoming speeches – By Catalina Camia, USA Today, 19 February

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Op-Eds Male Business Leaders Need to Support Women's Empowerment – By Elizabeth Broderick,

Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commisison and Joe Keefe, President and CEO, Pax World Funds, Huffington Post, 25 March 2015

Gender equality is not about changing women – by Elizabeth Shaw, Financial Review, 18 March 2015

In recognition of International Women’s Day 2015, U.N. Women examines the gender inequalities that still persist today in the U.S. and around the world – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, U.N. Women, USA Today, 7 March 2015

Achieving gender equality by 2030 – Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, LinkedIn Infuencer, 5 March 2015

Hillary Clinton to Re-Engage With UN Women's Empowerment: A Prelude to 2016? – John L. Paluszek, Executive Producer of "Business In Society, Huffington Post, 27 February 2015

Media Partner – The Guardian’s Women in Leadership Geena Davis: ‘I just assumed sexism wasn't present in what we show kids’ – By Lottie

O'Conor, Guardian Women in Leadership, 17 March 2015

'If we don’t actively and intentionally include women, the system will exclude them' – By Lottie O'Conor, Guardian Women in Leadership, 17 March 2015

Live blog: Women's Empowerment Principles annual conference 2015 – By Lottie O’Connor, Guardian Women in Leadership, 11 March 2015

Corporate Media Coverage Joining the World’s Experts on Women’s Empowerment – By Antoine Andrews, 7 April

2015, Symantec Blog

WEPs Leadership Awards (p. 76)

General Media Coverage Naciones Unidas como líder en la igualdad de género – Interempresas, 12 March 2015

Op-Eds CEO Leadership Award pour Schneider Electric – By Isabelle Michel-Magyar, VP Employees

Engagement & Diversity, Schneider Electric LinkedIn, 17 March 2015

Ring the Bell for Gender Equality – Global Stock Exchange Events (p. 81)

General Media Coverage Opening bell of Istanbul Stock Exchange rings for gender equality – Hurriyet Daily News, 6

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“Ring thr Bell for Gender Equality” Nasdaq Marquee (Video) – Reuters Insider, 9 March 2015

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Press Releases (p. 85) WEPs Annual Event

Women’s Empowerment Principles Stakeholders Call for New UN-Business Paradigm – UN Global Compact and UN Women, 11 March 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton and Business Leaders Call for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Rights – UN Global Compact and UN Women, 10 March 2015

CSW 59 Closes with Renewed Commitments, Calls for Continued Action on Gender Equality – IISD, 20 March 2015, CSW

Award Winner Releases

Women's Empowerment Principles Recognizes Omnilife-Angelissima with 2015 CEO Leadership Award for Advancing Women's Equality – 10 March 2014

Women’s Empowerment Principles Recognizes Schneider Electric with 2015 CEO Leadership Award for Advancing Women’s Equality – Rueil-Malmaison (France) – WEBWIRE

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ORF-Generaldirektor Wrabetz mit internationalem UNO-Preis in New York ausgezeichnet – 10 March 2015

Sovereign CEO receives UN Award for leadership – 10 March 2015

Stock Exchange Releases

Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality – UNCTAD, 11 March 2015

Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality – UN Global Compact, 9 March 2015

Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality – Sustainable Stock Exchange, 9 March 2015

NSE Commemorates International Women’s Day – The Nigerian Stock Exchange, 6 March 2015

In Collaboration With The UN Global Compact And Egypian Exchange; UN Women Launches the Global Campaign”Ring The Bell” In Egypt – Egyptian Stock Exchange, 2 March 2015

Other Signatory Announcements

ConsumerTrack Promotes Two Women to Executive Team – 27 March 2015

Pax Ellevate promotes Women's Empowerment Principles – Seacoastonline.com, 18 March 2015

Miller/Howard Investments Endorses the Women’s Empowerment Principles – 12 March 2015

Daily Hürriyet signs UN’s women empowering principles – Daily Hurriyet, 7 March 2015

Social Media (p. 121)

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General Media Coverage http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/03/13/when-companies-know-more-but-say-less-about-their-gender-gap/ When companies know more but say less about their gender gap By Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 13 March 2015

(BEWFAA) NEW YORK CITY — Two years ago, Avon executives made a startling discovery: The company, a beauty brand known for its legions of “Avon ladies,” had relatively few women in top management positions. Ninety-eight percent of employees in district sales management were women. But most top leadership roles in that area were held by men, said Leslie Mays, Avon’s vice president of global inclusion. "Even though we were predominantly women, we were dominated by men,” she told a conference room of business leaders this week in New York. The event, hosted by UN Women’s Women’s Empowerment Principles, focused on how organizations chart progress toward gender equality. Yet representatives for Avon, when later reached for comment, declined to release the specific percentage of women in upper-management roles at the company. Avon is among a growing number of multinational companies that have turned to analytics to track what happens to female employees throughout their careers – but like many businesses, it is hesitant to disclose what it finds. Google is a prime example. The company has long gathered data on its own workforce. Only last year, after outside pressure, did it make those figures public. "We've always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google," senior vice president Lazslo Bock wrote in a company post. Only 17 percent of Google’s technology workers are female. Avon’s gender breakdown is far less stark, so its reluctance to share senior management numbers is more puzzling. Avon employs 33,200 people across the globe, 60 percent of whom are women. Seven of the company’s 11 board members are

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women, a rare majority in corporate America, where women fill only 16.9 percent of Fortune 500 board seats. The cosmetics juggernaut also publicly strives to be a gender diversity champion, running breast cancer and domestic violence charities. So why was it struggling to promote its female employees to senior ranks? And why won’t it share a status update? “We agree that it is important to assess and track gender-specific data and this is an important part of Avon’s Global Women’s Strategy,” the company said in a statement to the Post. “During her presentation this week, Leslie shared several data points from an internal study to help illustrate our program.” Avon added, however: “The full findings of our gender analytics is confidential.” Representatives from L’Oreal and Carrefour also spoke on the UN panel about data reporting Wednesday. Both emphasized the importance of tracking female employee outcomes. Neither company, however, has released findings on how near it is to closing the gender gap. For companies like Avon — which Mays said is building a “women-centric environment” — the roadblocks to female employees' advancement are harder to discern than at male-dominated companies, where cultural barriers are more obvious. So, Avon started collecting gender-specific data to answer a few questions: How often were women getting promoted? Where did corporate mobility stagnate? What forces pushed turnover? What policies helped new parents stick around? Mercer, a talent consulting firm, works with global companies to crunch such numbers. Though a Mercer spokesperson declined to reveal how specific companies like Avon monitor their workforce, he explained that, in general, analysts sift through administrative data stored in a company’s HR system. Every career event is recorded: a promotion, pay raise, a supervisor change, a relocation. “Data tells the story of what happens to talent inside the bounds of the company,” said Brian Levine, partner and co-leader of strategy and analytics at Mercer. “You can map out the best experiences and paths and look to replicate those, to ensure everyone has access to high-potential paths. Mercer examined the careers of 1.7 million employees at 164 companies in 28 countries. Results, published last year, reinforced what a wide body of previous evidence has suggested: Women worldwide appear to have a tougher time breaking into their employers’ upper ranks. At the average global organization, researchers found, support staff — employees at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy — is 56 percent men and 44 percent women. Senior management, however, is 76 percent male.

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Credit: Mercer Over the last three years, Levine said, more companies have begun searching for ways to better balance gender ratios: “I think that’s because companies are struggling to find access to talent,” he said. “Innovation has become front and center — and research shows diversity links to innovation.” Still, companies prefer confidentiality. Levine can’t reveal any information about his clients, or who his clients are, or how many clients Mercer assists with gender tracking. Results, too, largely remain under wraps. That may soon change. As of last October, firm participants in the UN Global Compact, a human-rights policy initiative for businesses, could start answering gender-specific questions as part of their public Communication On Progress annual reports. So far, only 60 companies have participated, though more than 8,000 companies worldwide are part of the UN Global Compact network. Stephanie Oueda, who leads the international diversity team for L’Oreal in Paris, sat on the panel Wednesday with Mays. She said L'Oreal, like Avon, is using data to understand how to retain highly skilled female employees. The company found, for example, that a 14-week maternity leave reduces turnover. Google also found its data reveal a strong correlation between maternity leave and retention. In 2007, the company increased paid maternity leave from 12 to 18 weeks, and saw that the rate at which new moms left Google subsequently fell by 50 percent, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal column. Better analytics on gender could drive economic growth worldwide, said Levine, the Mercer executive. Eliminating the gap between male and female employment rates could boost GDP in the United States by 5 percent, in Japan by 9 percent, in the United Arab Emirates by 12 percent and in Egypt by 34 percent, according to calculations by the International Monetary Fund.

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Avon’s 2013 study, which revealed an uneven gender ratio in sales management, looked at the company’s top-performing markets. On the list: Brazil, Russia, Mexico and the United States. “Even with all of our success in gender diversity, we still had to step back and ask, “What do women need?” Mays told the conference crowd. “We still have to focus on making this mission and living this mission into reality.” That could mean sharing its numbers publicly in the future, an Avon spokesperson said. In the meantime, the company will just share them with HR and sales team leaders. UPDATE: After this article published, Avon shared some of its updated gender ratio statistics with the Post. As of February 2015: -60 percent of all Avon associates are women -45 percent of director level positions and above are held by women -45 percent of senior manager level roles and below are held by women -Half the company’s top markets have a woman as Vice President of Sales -All regional managers in the U.S. are women

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http://qz.com/359994/hillary-clintons-email-upstaged-her-big-speech-on-womens-rights/ UNFINISHED BUSINESS Hillary Clinton’s email upstaged her big speech on women’s rights By Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 11 March 2015 In 1995, Hillary Clinton joined world leaders in Beijing for a United Nations conference on women. She delivered a powerful speech, calling for action toward achieving gender equality. As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace around the world—as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled and subjected to violence in and out of their homes—the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized. She was first lady of the United States then. Today, 20 years later, she was back addressing the same assembly on the same issues. In between, she’s been a senator, a presidential candidate, and secretary of state. Now she’s a presumptive candidate in the 2016 race for the White House. In the introduction she was given to the attendees who had gathered at the UN building in New York today, she was referred to, amongst excited cheers, as “future president.” Her speech wasn’t much different from the one she delivered in Beijing. Comprehensive and balanced, it pointed to the untapped potential women hold for the US economy—an economy that she said would be 10% larger if the gap between men’s and women’s participation in the workforce were closed. While noting that “there has never been a better time in history to be born female,” Clinton described women’s equality as “the great unfinished business of the 21st century.” The women’s rights focus of the event ended there for Clinton: at the widely covered press conference following her speech, her brief opening statement about women quickly gave way to a discussion about the scandal regarding her email practices as secretary of state. One question she fielded from the press attempted to tie the two subjects together: Clinton was asked whether she thought a man in her position would be held up to the same scrutiny. She declined to reply, saying she’d leave the judgment of the situation to others—which is a shame, because indeed a man would have been grilled just as she has, and she should have been proud to say that. Clinton was under fire not for her gender, but for her power and success, and for her conduct while holding the most important foreign affairs office in the world. She should have acknowledged that her treatment was not due to gender imbalance—if anything, it was a sign that she was taken as seriously (and as suspiciously) as a man. Of course, it would be preferable to see proof of a level playing field in other, more positive regards. And it’s a shame the broader message of the UN conference got overshadowed by one woman’s political scandal. Yet what happened at the UN today proves that, while there is still a lot of ground to cover and gender equality is indeed unfinished business, 20 years after the world first agreed that “women’s rights are human rights” there has been progress—enough at least that a woman like Clinton would be on a world stage not because she had married a president but because she might be one. If holding such power means getting treated as roughly as the male politicians who have courted scandal, so be it.

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http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20150311/281509339658440/TextView Clinton aims to quiet uproar By Anne Gearan amd Philip Rucker Washington Post, 11 March 2015 The following article appeared on the front page of the 11 March print version of the Washington Post. Please note a couple of WEPs reference below in bold.

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REUTERSThe e-mail controversy overshadowed Clinton’s speech at a women’s empowerment event at the U.N. united nations — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that she regretted using only a private e-mail server for work-related correspondence as secretary of state, saying that she sent and received more than 60,000 e-mails through her private account in a four-year span but that none contained classified material. Scrambling to extinguish a growing political controversy ahead of the expected April launch of her 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton held a hastily arranged news conference at the United Nations headquar-ters in New York, her first such session in more than two years. She was lawyerly and measured but also defiant in insisting that she did not violate any administration rules despite White House guidelines in-structing employees to use official e-mail accounts. Scrambling to extinguish a growing political controversy ahead of the expected April launch of her 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton held a hastily arranged news conference at the United Nations headquar-ters in New York, her first such session in more than two years. She was lawyerly and measured but also defiant in insisting that she did not violate any administration rules despite White House guidelines in-structing employees to use official e-mail accounts. Clinton said she exclusively used her private e-mail account out of “convenience,” so as not to have to carry two phones. But she conceded that it “might have been smarter” to use a separate government account to conduct her State Department business. “Looking back, it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two e-mail accounts,” Clinton said. “I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously it hasn’t worked out that way.” Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server located in her New York home attracted criticism from Republi-cans and some Democrats about the security of her correspondence, as well as her judgment and pen-chant for secrecy. Clinton’s office said Tuesday that her use of a private e-mail account was “widely

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known” by more than 100 U.S. government colleagues with whom she communicated, and that she communicated with only one foreign government official, who was from the United Kingdom. Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server located in her New York home attracted criticism from Republi-cans and some Democrats about the security of her correspondence, as well as her judgment and pen-chant for secrecy. Clinton’s office said Tuesday that her use of a private e-mail account was “widely known” by more than 100 U.S. government colleagues with whom she communicated, and that she communicated with only one foreign government official, who was from the United Kingdom. Between March 2009 after she was sworn in as secretary and her departure in early 2013, Clinton sent and received 62,320 e-mails from her private account. Clinton’s office said 31,830 were deemed by her and her attorneys to be personal in nature. Last December, Clinton turned over the remaining e-mails to the State Department, totaling roughly 55,000 pages in printed form. The department has begun a review of the documents and announced Tuesday that it would release them on a publicly accessible Web site in the coming months. Last December, Clinton turned over the remaining e-mails to the State Department, totaling roughly 55,000 pages in printed form. The department has begun a review of the documents and announced Tuesday that it would release them on a publicly accessible Web site in the coming months. In her 20-minute news conference, Clinton said she had deleted e-mails that she believed were “within the scope of my personal privacy” — including, she said, correspondence about daughter Chelsea’s wed-ding, mother Dorothy’s funeral, her yoga routines and family vacations. Clinton defended having made herself the arbiter of which e-mails to keep for archival purposes and which to delete. “For any government employee, it is that government employee’s responsibility to determine what’s personal and what’s work-related,” Clinton said. She added: “No one wants their personal e-mails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy. . . . I had no reason to save them.” Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), a member of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, called for a “third party” to review the e-mails. “It’s just not appropriate for Hillary Clinton to be the final arbiter of what should be turned over,” Pom-peo said. “This is truly about getting the facts out for these poor families and the American people.” “It’s just not appropriate for Hillary Clinton to be the final arbiter of what should be turned over,” Pom-peo said. “This is truly about getting the facts out for these poor families and the American people.” Clinton said that “there were no security breaches” with her private account, which was connected to a family server at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Her office would not detail the level of encryption but said there were “robust protections” in place and that upgrades were employed over time.

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“I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail,” Clinton said. She added: “I fully com-plied with every rule that I was governed by.” In the wake of the March 2 revelation that she had conducted State Department business over private e-mail, Clinton tried to remain above the fray. She tweeted that she wanted the public to see her e-mail, but she would not comment on the matter in her public appearances and waved off reporters’ ques-tions Monday. But after pressure mounted, including from Democratic allies, for her to respond more aggressively, Clinton was compelled to shift strategy and hold a news conference. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called on Clinton to address her e-mail practices personally. President Obama did not come to Clinton’s defense in an interview over the week-end, and his White House tried to distance itself from the controversy by stating that Clinton did not fol-low administration guidelines against using private or commercial e-mail for government business. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called on Clinton to address her e-mail practices personally. President Obama did not come to Clinton’s defense in an interview over the week-end, and his White House tried to distance itself from the controversy by stating that Clinton did not fol-low administration guidelines against using private or commercial e-mail for government business. Privately, senior Democrats have been wringing their hands at what they consider a botched response by Clinton and her skeletal political operation, fearing that her silence fed suspicions that she had some-thing to hide. Privately, senior Democrats have been wringing their hands at what they consider a botched response by Clinton and her skeletal political operation, fearing that her silence fed suspicions that she had some-thing to hide. The e-mail controversy overshadowed two days of carefully choreographed events aimed at celebrating Clinton’s lifelong commitment to empowering women and girls. The events are part of the thematic buildup to the expected launch of her official campaign. The e-mail controversy overshadowed two days of carefully choreographed events aimed at celebrating Clinton’s lifelong commitment to empowering women and girls. The events are part of the thematic buildup to the expected launch of her official campaign. At the Women’s Empowerment Principles event at the U.N. earlier Tuesday, Clinton was warmly wel-comed as a “future president.” But elsewhere in the U.N.’s hulking headquarters, the scene was chaotic ahead of her news conference. Scores of journalists and a massive scrum of television cameras waited hours in line to get credentials to access the highsecurity compound. At a stakeout location, a simple podium was set up for Clinton only a few feet away from a copy of Picasso’s “Guernica,” which gruesomely depicts the suffering of innocent civilians under fascism during the Spanish Civil War.

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Although her smile was tightlipped at times, Clinton mostly appeared at ease, if slightly exasperated. Hewing closely to her written talking points, she made no obvious blunders. Still, Republicans showed no signs of letting up their scrutiny, and they focused in particular on her dele-tion of e-mails she considered personal. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement that Clinton was “disingen-uous” in her news conference. “If she had an ounce of respect for the American people, she would have apologized for putting our na-tional security at risk for ‘convenience,’ ” Priebus said in a statement. “She would’ve agreed to hand over her secret server to an independent arbiter. . . . She did none of that.” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who chairs the House’s Benghazi committee, said Clinton’s news conference left “more questions than answers” and that he would call her to appear before his committee at least twice. “Without access to Secretary Clinton’s personal server, there is no way for the State Department to know it has acquired all documents that should be made public,” Gowdy said in a statement. He added that there remain “serious questions about the security of the system she employed from a national se-curity standpoint.” The Clinton e-mail revelations have given new life to Gowdy’s probe into the Benghazi attacks that left four U.S. officials dead. Although a trove of Clinton’s e-mails was turned over to the committee months ago, Gowdy has alleged that she must be hiding more related to Libya and vowed to issue subpoenas. The Clinton e-mail revelations have given new life to Gowdy’s probe into the Benghazi attacks that left four U.S. officials dead. Although a trove of Clinton’s e-mails was turned over to the committee months ago, Gowdy has alleged that she must be hiding more related to Libya and vowed to issue subpoenas. The State Department’s Accountability Review Board, which investigated the Benghazi attacks, said fol-lowing the release of its report in late 2012 that it had been given “unfettered access to everyone and everything, included all the documentation we needed.” The board asked for all pertinent information, including e-mails, Thomas R. Pickering, the former senior diplomat who led the inquiry, said in an interview Tuesday. “I have no recollection of seeing any Hillary Clinton e-mails,” he said. Pickering said he recalled no e-mails at all in the documents reviewed by the board, although he “could not say categorically” that there were none. “We could have received some” from other State Depart-ment officials that were examined by staffers, he said, “but I don’t recall any from the secretary.” The controversy has tested Clinton’s strategy of remaining on the sidelines of the official 2016 presiden-tial contest for as long as possible. As the undisputed front-runner for the Democratic nomination and

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without a serious opponent, she has had the luxury of picking which issues to address while keeping most details of her forthcoming campaign secret. Several likely Republican presidential contenders, including former Florida governor Jeb Bush, have sharply criticized her handling of the e-mail issue. Asked what impact the controversy may have on the timing of a possible campaign announcement, Clin-ton said, “With respect to any sort of future issues, I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters.” “I feel that I’ve taken unprecedented steps to provide these work-related e-mails,” she continued. “They’re going to be in the public domain. And I think that Americans will find that, you know, interest-ing, and I look forward to having a discussion about that.”

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-press-conference/ Hillary Clinton: I used one email 'for convenience' By Alexandra Jaffe and Dan Merica, CNN, 11 March 2015 Washington (CNN) Former secretary of State and likely 2016 White House aspirant Hillary Clinton sought to tamp down concerns about her use of private email while leading the State Department during a press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday. While she maintained she had not broken any rules, she also said she would not be turning over the private server housing her correspondence, despite calls for her to release it for an independent review. Clinton said she used a private domain for her official work during her time at the State Department out of "convenience," but admitted in retrospect "it would have been better" to use multiple emails. "I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," she said. "Looking back, it would have been better if I'd simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem like an issue."

The former secretary of state defended her process in choosing which emails to turn over to the State Department, telling reporters that she and her staff "err[ed] on the side of providing anything that could be possibly viewed as work-related." A statement from her office outlined the process by which she chose which emails to turn over, revealing it included a search for the names of State Department staffers, anything from a ".gov" email address and various keyword searches of the emails sent and received during her time at the State Department. "I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters and I feel like I've taken unprecedented steps for these emails to be in the public domain," Clinton said. "I went above and beyond what I was requested to do." But that reassurance will likely fall short for critics who point out there's no way of verifying her team turned over all government-related emails no matter how politically damaging they may be.

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In the 20-minute press conference, Clinton answered an array of questions raised by the revelation that she exclusively used a private server and domain for her official business during her time at state. And in a sign of how much the Clinton team wants to nip the controversy in the bud, they issued a detailed, nine-page memo outlining answers to a series of common questions surrounding the controversy. During her press conference, Clinton said that the 55,000 pages of correspondence she turned over to the State Department for review made up about half, or 30,000, of the overall 60,000 emails she sent and received with the private server. The statement later disclosed that about 90% of those had already been archived in the State Department's records, as they had been sent to ".gov" accounts, which are automatically archived. The other 30,000 — which included everything from wedding planning to yoga routines, Clinton said — she deleted.

She also said she didn't use the server to send any classified information, and only emailed one foreign leader — from the United Kingdom — during her time at State. Clinton told reporters there were no security breaches on the server anyway, but the statement declined to disclose how her emails were encrypted, because, "given what people with ill-intentions can do with such information in this day and age, there are concerns about broadcasting specific technical details about past and current practices." The server had been set up for President Bill Clinton's use, Clinton told reporters, and was located on her property, guarded by Secret Service. The press conference was an unwanted end to a day Clinton allies had hoped would be focused on her work advocating for women's rights globally, with a speech at the United Nations' Women's Empowerment Principles event. Clinton used the speech to discuss her "No Ceilings" report on the conditions for women and girls globally and propose solutions for the challenges to promoting women's rights, which she called the "unfinished business" of the century. "Let's all keep working until we can say the unfinished business of the 21st century is completed," Clinton said during the speech.

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But with the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email server and domain during her time at State continuing into its second week, Clinton had to follow the speech at the UN with a hastily arranged a press conference. It was her first large engagement with reporters in five months, since she gaggled with the press during a political event in Iowa last September. Around 25 cameras were trained on the Democrat as she answered questions from behind a podium, and press from as far as Turkey were in New York to cover the event. Media attention around Tuesday's event was more heightened than usual, but the focus appeared to be on emails. Outside the event early on, reporters lined up to shout questions at both Hillary and Bill Clinton in vain. Neither responded to repeated questions about the email controversy. Just prior to the press conference, the State Department offered details on how the emails would be released. Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said after the review of the 55,000 pages of documents — which would take months — the emails would be posted on a publicly accessible website. The 300 emails pertaining to the request made by the congressional committee investigating the attacks in Benghazi, amounting to about 900 pages, will be released first. Psaki said the review wouldn't cost taxpayers anymore than a review of emails sent entirely through an official State Department email would, as both are done with hard-copy printouts. While Clinton allies are breathing a sigh of relief that she's finally decided to break the silence, the past three weeks of controversies, which began with scrutiny of her family foundation's donors last month, has taken its toll. Though few Democrats other than Clinton are readying a potential campaign, Democratic critics already wary of her expected presidential candidacy found further evidence Clinton needs to face a credible primary challenge to prepare for the general election. The controversy has even strained relations with the Obama administration, which has been forced to answer for her use of a private email server as she's remained silent on the issue.

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http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Gender-equality-discussed-at-UN-with-attendance-of-Hillary-Clinton-_2685-CHMTcwMjY4NQ Gender equality discussed at UN with attendance of Hillary Clinton CIHAN, 11 March 2015

Speaking at the high-level event themed "Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender Equality" the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalled the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Ban said "Businesses were not part of the discussions in Beijing 20 years ago. Now it is clear that achieving gender equality will require the concerted efforts of all actors. The Women's Empowerment Principles provide a roadmap for businesses to play their role in respecting and supporting women's rights." The 2015 Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) annual event is held on the sidelines of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women taking place this week at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Organizers aim to bring together leaders from business, Government, the UN and civil society to discuss the concrete steps and actions that business can take to advance gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community. In his opening statement Secretary-General said that "removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and political life must be a top priority for us all – businesses, Governments, the United Nations and civil society." Following keynote speaker, a former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said "what we are doing here today is smart for companies and smart for countries. That is the wisdom behind the Women Empowerment principle." Pointing out that it has never been a better time to be born as a female, Clinton also said there is still a lot to be done.

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She said "we're not there yet. When we nearly closed the gender gap in primary school but more than 30 million girls never go on to secondary school. We're not there yet when every year more than one million girls are never born because of gender-biased sex selection mainly in China and India." Presenting the findings from the study done by Clinton foundation "No Ceilings: The Full Participation Report" former US Secretary of State said that if her country's is to close the gap in workforce participation between men and women, its economy " will grow by nearly 10% and the numbers are significant for other economies as well. That's the power of full participation particularly in the business sector and particularly in the formal business sector." Hillary Clinton led the US delegation to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, where she delivered a historic speech on gender equality and forged much repeated quote: "women's rights are human rights". SHOTLIST: 10 MARCH 2015, NEW YORK CITY UN flag Meeting room Ban and Clinton walking to podium Podium Audience Podium Clinton coming to podium Delegates Audience applauding SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the UN: "Businesses were not part of the discussions in Beijing 20 years ago. Now it is clear that achieving gender equality will require the concerted efforts of all actors. The Women's Empowerment Principles provide a roadmap for businesses to play their role in respecting and supporting women's rights." SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the UN: "Removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and political life must be a top priority for us all – businesses, Governments, the United Nations and civil society." SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Former US Secretary of State: "What we are doing here today is smart for companies and smart for countries. That is the wisdom behind the Women Empowerment principle." SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Former US Secretary of State: "We're not there yet when we nearly closed the gender gap in primary school but more than 30 million girls never go on to secondary school. We're not there yet when every year more than one million girls

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are never born because of gender-biased sex selection mainly in China and India." SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Former US Secretary of State: "Take the United States. If we close the gap in workforce participation between men and women, our economy will grow by nearly 10% and the numbers are significant for other economies as well. That's the power of full participation particularly in the business sector and particularly in the formal business sector."

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http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/911332.shtml Removing barriers top priority to help women, girls: UN chief Xinhua, 11 March 2015 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that it must be a top priority for the international community to remove the barriers that women and girls on the margins of the society. The secretary-general made the remarks as he was speaking to participants at the annual Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event at UN Headquarters in New York. "Removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and political life must be a top priority for us all -- businesses, governments, the United Nations and civil society," Ban said at the 59th Commission on the Status of Women side-line gathering. "As we reflect on the Beijing+20 findings and prepare to implement the sustainable development goals that will guide us for the next 15 years, until 2030, it is extremely positive to see so many business leaders stepping up to work with us," the secretary-general said. Among the participants were the former US secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary-general's special envoy for climate change, Mary Robinson, and the UN under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. The Women's Empowerment Principles provide a roadmap for businesses to play their role in respecting and supporting women's rights. Launched by the secretary-general in 2010, the initiative aims to engage businesses to advance gender equality and sustainability. Over the past five years, it has reached nearly 1000 companies, each of which has made a commitment at the highest level to implement the seven guiding Principles. "I am particularly gratified that seven Women's Empowerment Principles are resonating around the world, helping hundreds of companies to identify gaps and scale up their efforts to implement gender equality and empower women in their workplaces, marketplaces and communities," the secretary-general said. Earlier Tuesday, Ban presided over a ceremony to launch the report Saving Lives, Protecting Futures alongside Amina Mohammed, the UN special advisor on post-2015 development planning, in the UN Economic and Social Council. Ban noted that the Every Woman Every Child health partnership was the fastest growing in history. "This young, dynamic partnership has already developed real momentum," he said. "Because of our collective endeavor, more women and children are surviving than ever before. Since 2010 alone, the world has saved the lives of some 2.4 million women and children." Ban said the issue of maternal and child health was a "personal cause" to him because of his experiences

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of losing a sibling and his travels, which he said had exposed him to "needless suffering" around the world. Under the partnership, remarkable progress had been made in the 49 countries targeted, on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, and of increasing availability of oral rehydration therapy for treating infant diarrhoea, of exclusive breastfeeding and of post-natal care for women. Other achievements include greater availability of professional maternity care, family planning, childhood vaccinations, and prenatal care. "Every Woman Every Child" garnered over 400 commitments by more than 300 partners around the world, ranging from governments and foundations to business, civil society and low-income countries themselves. The variety of partners that came together for the partnership is one of the most salient achievements of "Every Woman Every Child."

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsId=50293#.VSb61_nF-E4 Equality means business: UN urges private sector to help close gender gap UN News Centre, 10 March 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the 59th Commission on the Status of Women side-line gathering. UN Photo/Mark Garten

10 March 2015 – Although businesses were not part of the discussions at the historic Beijing Women’s Conference 20 years ago, it is now clear that achieving gender equality will require the concerted efforts of the private sector, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told participants at the annual Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event at UN Headquarters. “Removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and political life must be a top priority for us all – businesses, Governments, the United Nations and civil society,” Mr. Ban said at the 59th Commission on the Status of Women side-line gathering. “As we reflect on the Beijing+20 findings and prepare to implement the sustainable development goals that will guide us for the next 15 years, until 2030, it is extremely positive to see so many business leaders stepping up to work with us,” Mr. Ban added, who was joined at the event by Former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, his Special Envoy for Climate Change, Mary Robinson, and Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Following the opening segment, several panels took place on women and business. The Women’s Empowerment Principles provide a roadmap for businesses to play their role in respecting and supporting women’s rights. Launched by the Secretary-General in 2010, the initiative aims to engage businesses to advance gender equality and sustainability. In the past five years, it has reached nearly 1000 companies, each of which has made a commitment at the highest level to implement the seven guiding Principles.

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“I am particularly gratified that seven Women’s Empowerment Principles are resonating around the world, helping hundreds of companies to identify gaps and scale up their efforts to implement gender equality and empower women in their workplaces, marketplaces and communities,” the UN chief said. There are many examples of companies that are taking real steps to close the gender gap, Mr. Ban said. From a global electrical energy company linking gender diversity performance with financial bonuses to a sanitation company in India headed by a female CEO making bio-friendly toilets available to poor communities and from a Turkish bank designing products to support women entrepreneurs to a renewable energy company in Brazil setting up a domestic violence support system. To that end, Mr. Ban encouraged businesses supporting Women’s Empowerment Principles to join UN Global Compact and communicate their progress annually. Taking to the podium next in her keynote address, Hillary Clinton said today’s gathering comes at a pivotal moment in gender equality: “We are here to build on the progress of the past and the promise of the future.” Men and women who understand that gender equality is “not just morally right but the smart thing to do” are growing in numbers. “We may be approaching critical mass but we have to keep on pushing because what we are doing here today is smart for companies and for countries.” “Some of you were with me at the Beijing Conference where remarkably leaders pledged to work for the full participation of women and girls,” Mrs. Clinton said. Out of Beijing came the Beijing Platform for Action and in many parts of the world it turned into an “organizing document.” UN women was created, the Security Council recognized the role of women in peacekeeping missions, the World Bank promoted women’s role in development, and national laws were passed to close gender gaps in health and education. “Now, 20 years later, it is our job to keep ambition alive,” Mrs. Clinton urged, noting that all the evidence reveals that despite the obstacles that remain, there has never been a better time in history to be born a girl. A girl born in Lesotho 20 years ago could not hope to own property, now she can. A girl born 20 years ago in Rwanda grew up in the shadow of genocide and rape, and now there are more women serving in her country’s Parliament than in anywhere else in the world. But despite all this progress, “we are still not there yet”. More than 30 million girls never go on to secondary schools. More than one million girls are never born because of gender-based selection mainly in China and India. More than half the nations in the world still have no laws on the books combating gender-based violence and an estimated one in three women is subject to it. “Rights have to exist in practice not just on paper, and laws have to be backed up with resources not just political will,” Mrs. Clinton declared. She said that deep-seeded cultural bias continues to hold girls back. “Join us in making absolutely clear that the full participation of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. We can’t afford to leave anyone behind.” In the United States alone, if the workforce gap between men and women closed the economy would grow by 10 per cent. These numbers are significant for other countries as well. She emphasized the importance of gender-equality being included in the proposed sustainablde development goals (SDGs).

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“When I was Secretary of State and I would speak with my colleagues around the world about these issues there was a moment when I saw their eyes would glaze over, ‘I know she’s going to talk to me about women and I’ll smile until we get on to more important issues,’ they would think. But that has changed now,” she said, adding that the progress of the last 20 years was no accident; it took commitment, accountability, unity and hard work. “These issues remain deeply personal for me. My late mother was born in the United States before women could vote and before there were employment opportunities, but she had real grit and grace and gave me the drive to have integrity and provide a service to others. We each know so many women whose names will never be in the headlines and we can take a moment to think about the teachers and mentors who have changed our lives and now it is time to do that for the next generation.” Mary Robinson said the women’s empowerment principles were the “best step forward that the UN Global Compact has taken in the last 15 years,” and she stressed the extent of her support for their understanding of the importance of forging the relationship. Underlining the importance of fully integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into the several important international processes going on in 2015, she focused her comments on addressing what she called the “double injustice” of climate change and gender inequality. Gender equality, she noted, was recognized within the post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals through Goal 5, but was not as secure in the climate process. She described her disappointment at the recent meeting in Lima of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) at the failure of negotiators to be specific about the link between climate change and gender equality but she added that she had seen an improvement in Geneva, where “relatively good” gender language and human rights language had entered into the text. “We need that balance to ensure that we will achieve our objectives,” she said, as she outlined the gravity of the climate change crisis facing the world, including the human rights dimensions faced by countries like Kiribati, which purchased land from Fiji because of the existential threat posed by climate change. If the response to climate change is such that people have to move from the land where “the bones of their ancestors” are buried, it is clear that a people-centred approach was not being taken to tackling the crisis. She closed on a personal note, saying that she was motivated as a grandmother to consider what her grandchildren would say about the work done by leaders in 2015, because she knew it would hugely impact their lives in 2050. “That’s why we need this grand alliance,” she said of the link between women and the business sector, “because we have a lot to do to secure a very good, legally binding agreement in Paris,” she said referring to a crucial meeting of UNFCCC parties set for the end of the year.

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http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000360647 Hillary Clinton: Never been better time to be born female (Video) CNBC, 10 March 2015 Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton speaks about gender equality at the United Nations' Women's Empowerment Principles annual event.

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http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2015/Top-UN-officials-signal-support-for-Clinton-if-she-runs-for-president-she-focuses-on-women/id-fc09bc1f4e8f440c896c2fc8d0c03a5b Top UN Official Signal Support for Clinton If She Runs for Office By Cara Anna, Associated Press, 10 March 2015 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two top U.N. officials on Tuesday signaled their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she announces a run for U.S. president, while she focused her speech at the United Nations on women's empowerment instead.

Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives, with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right, to deliver her remarks in the ECOSOC chamber of the United Nations, during the annual Women’s Empowerment Principles event, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women brought loud cheers just before Clinton spoke, referring to the former first lady as "a future president." U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon then told the crowd he hoped he would be able to "speak as freely" about Clinton's future as UN Women chief Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, "but I will wait some more time." Clinton's speech was quickly overshadowed by her first public comments on her use of a private email address and server while secretary of state. In her speech, she said women's issues remained deeply personal 20 years after her groundbreaking speech at a conference in Beijing, where she declared, "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights." She told her audience Tuesday that convincing her peers in certain governments around the world didn't come easy. "When I was secretary of state and would speak with colleagues across the world on these issues, there was often a moment when I could see their eyes glaze over: 'Yes, I know she's going to talk to me about women' ...,'" Clinton said. "But that began to change," especially as women's positive effect on economies became more clear.

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She asserted that there's never been a better time in history to be born as a woman, but she warned that plenty still needs to be achieved. One example: An estimated one in three women is still subjected to violence, she said. Clinton also wrote the introduction to the newly released "No Ceilings" report on the status of women in 2015, which says more than 170 countries currently have legal barriers in place that prevent women and girls from experiencing the same rights and freedoms as men and boys. Ban told the crowd Tuesday: "Removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and political life must be a top priority for us all: businesses, governments, the United Nations and civil society.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/mar/10/hillary-clinton-addresses-email-controversy-live-coverage Clinton defends use of personal email as secretary of state By Oliver Laughland and Paul Owen The Guardian, 10 March 2015 Likely Democratic candidate for president deleted half the emails - which she says were personal - and insists her private server ‘will remain private Below is a sampling of posts from the live blog on 10 March. Please visit the URL above for the full thread.

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http://3blmedia.com/Video/Minute/Corporations-Committed-Gender-Diversity-Asked-Sign-UN-Womens-Empowerment-Principles Corporations Committed to Gender Diversity Asked to Sign on to U.N. Women’s Empowerment Principle (Video) 3BL Media – The Minute, 10 March 2015

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/nytnow/latest-news-ferguson-courts-senators-rebuked-nfl-salary-cap.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 Your Tuesday Briefing Latest News: Ferguson Courts, Republicans Rebuked, N.F.L. Salary Cap By Adeel Hassan, NYT Now, 10 March 2015

Students clashed with police in Myanmar again today after more than a week of protests over a new education bill. Protesters say the bill stifles academic freedom. CreditSoe Zeya Tun/Reuters

Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Change comes to Ferguson. The Missouri Supreme Court, citing the need for “extraordinary action” to restore trust in Ferguson’s court system, assigned a state appeals court judge to oversee all municipal cases. The Justice Department blasted the town for routinely violating constitutional rights. The municipal judge who was repeatedly cited in the report for abusive practices announced his resignation. • Foreign policy challenge. President Obama rebuked 47 Senate Republicans who wrote an open letter to Iran’s leaders to criticize nuclear talks. He says the action undermines his foreign policy. The president travels to Atlanta today to talk about financial aid for college education. • Forecasting 2016. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 86 percent of likely Democratic primary voters say they are open to supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party’s nomination. Jeb Bush, considered an early Republican favorite among big donors, has much less support. Forty-two percent of likely G.O.P. primary voters say they did not see themselves supporting him. • Clinton address. Mrs. Clinton, meanwhile, speaks today at a U.N. conference assessing how well governments have done since they promised to ensure women’s equality at a landmark meeting 20 years ago. Afterward, she is expected to address her use of a private email address while secretary of state in her first news conference since she left the State Department two years ago. • On Capitol Hill.

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The Senate is expected to move forward today with bipartisan legislation to fight human trafficking by increasing the penalties for pimps and johns. The House is in recess this week. • Silicon Valley’s gender imbalance. The woman at the center of a high-profile sex discrimination case involving a prominent venture capital firm testifies today. Ellen Pao is seeking $16 million in damages after she says she was passed over for a promotion because she is a woman. • Midair crash kills 2 French Olympians. Ten people were killed, including two French Olympians and another prominent French athlete, after two helicopters collided in midair in Argentina on Monday night. They were headed toward a remote gorge to film a popular French reality TV show called “Dropped.” MARKETS • Wall Street stocks are sharply lower. European indexes ended well off, with London sinking 2 percent, and Asian shares ended mostly down. • The euro is ever closer to parity with the dollar, falling again today to $1.0716. • Gigaom, a pioneering technology blog started in 2006, is now controlled by its lenders and has shut down, its founder said. • Credit Suisse stock is up sharply today after the banking powerhouse unexpectedly said it is replacing its chief executive. The bank pleaded guilty to a criminal charge last year. • Apple holds its annual shareholders meeting today, a day after it showed off a new smartwatch to the public. Its stock is up 68 percent in the last 12 months. NOTEWORTHY • Gun households shrink. Only 32 percent of Americans own a firearm themselves or live with someone who does, according to a survey. That number ties a record low set in 2010 and is down from around 50 percent in the 1980s. • The last crossing. “Dead Wake,” a nonfiction book by Erik Larson (“Devil in the White City” and “In the Garden of Beasts”), is an account of the sinking of the Lusitania, released today as the 100th anniversary nears. The British ocean liner was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. Nearly 1,200 people, including 128 Americans, died, contributing indirectly to the U.S. entry into World War I. • Her beat goes on. Madonna Louise Ciccone, 56, better known by just her first name, releases today the album “Rebel Heart,” featuring collaborations with Chance the Rapper, Mike Tyson, Nas and Nicki Minaj. A hacker (a suspect has been indicted in Israel) put online six unfinished songs from the album in December. She then released the finished versions, and they soared to the Top 10 worldwide. • In memoriam. Sam Simon, a creative force behind “The Simpsons” who left the show after its fourth season in a lucrative arrangement that allowed him to give his money away, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. Mr. Simon, 59, had colon cancer. • The affairs of France. A dating website geared to married women looking for affairs has spawned a backlash and a national debate in France. BACK STORY

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All 32 National Football League teams are scrambling to decide whether to release some players or renegotiate their contracts in the face of today’s 4 p.m. Eastern deadline for complying with the annual salary cap. At that time, free agency begins. The cap, a limit on players’ payroll that first came into force in the 1994 season, is $143.28 million per team for 2015. The idea of the cap is to keep salaries in check and create a level playing field. By one measure, it’s worked. In the 20 seasons before the cap took effect, five franchises won at least three Super Bowls. In the last 20 seasons, only the New England Patriots (four titles) have done so. Here is one favorite trick in the numbers game: Teams “back-end” contracts by shoveling much of the base salary to the final years of a contract, lessening the impact on the earliest seasons. They can always renegotiate or cut the player later. So be a bit wary when you hear about the next big contract this week. There’s a fair chance that it won’t be the final word. Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. Your Morning Briefing is published weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern andupdated on the web all morning.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-10/hillary-clinton-says-her-use-of-private-e-mail-was-legal Hillary Clinton Defends E-mail Practices, and Draws a Line By Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg Politics, 10 March 2015 The former secretary of state says she permanently deleted many of her own personal e-mail messages from the private server Hillary Clinton offered detailed explanations Tuesday for the way she used a private e-mail account and server while she served as secretary of state, but her assertion that she had met all her obligations to release her correspondence failed to satisfy skeptical Republicans. In a hastily called press conference in a hallway at the United Nations, Clinton said she had turned over printed copies of thousands of work-related e-mails to the State Department but that she had gotten rid of thousands of other personal e-mails on the server. "I have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private," she said. Her decision to use private e-mail was for convenience, Clinton said. "I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails instead of two."

“I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails instead of two.” Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

But Representative Trey Gowdy, who has subpoena power as the Republican leading the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, said Tuesday that he was not satisfied and still wanted a third party to examine her server to ensure that she had turned over all relevant e-mails to the panel and to the State Department. Speaking to more than 100 reporters, Clinton sought to explain why she used a personal account, how she used that account and whether it had been sufficiently secure, all in hopes of pushing back on at least some of the scrutiny she has faced since March 2, when the New York Times first reported on her e-mail practices. Clinton said repeatedly that she regrets her decision to use a single e-mail address. "Looking back, it would've been better that I had simply used a second e-mail account and carried a second phone," she said. "But at the time this didn't seem like an issue." Convenience was the only factor that Clinton cited in explaining her decision as she took the helm at State in 2009, and she did not discuss whether there was any concern then among her aides that the single account would later prove to be a liability.

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Clinton stressed Tuesday that she adhered to all the relevant federal records laws and policies during her four years in the Obama administration by saving and handing more 30,490 work-related messages to the State Department that were identified by a "thorough process" run by her staff. She chose to delete the 31,830 messages that her team deemed personal and private, out of respect for her own privacy and the privacy of those with whom she was corresponding. "I chose not to keep my private personal e-mails–e-mails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes," she said. "No one wants their personal e-mails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy," she said. Clinton asserted that her messages had been secure since her server had originally been used for former President Bill Clinton's e-mail traffic, had "numerous safeguards" and was physically secured by the Secret Service at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.. The account, she said, was never hacked and she "did not e-mail classified material." After the news conference, Clinton's office released a fact sheet offering more details on issues related to her e-mails and declined to say much about the security measures that were in place because "given what people with ill-intentions can do with such information in this day and age, there are concerns about broadcasting specific technical details about past and current practices." Her office offered a 'trust us, it's safe explanation,' writing: "suffice it to say, robust protections were put in place and additional upgrades and techniques employed over time as they became available, including consulting and employing third party experts." One outstanding question was whether Clinton had used her e-mail account to communicate with foreign officials, and her office said that its review of her archives found only one message to a foreign official, from the United Kingdom. Otherwise, she "communicated with foreign officials in person, through correspondence, and by telephone." Asked during the news conference about her views on questions about the Clinton Foundation's acceptance of foreign governments such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that have dismal records on women's rights–another issue that flared in recent weeks–Clinton held firm. "I'm very proud of the work the foundation does," she said. Just before Clinton's news conference, the State Department was in the midst of reviewing the 55,000 pages worth of correspondence that Clinton had turned over to fulfill her obligations under the Federal Records Act. Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that state would also turn over e-mails pertaining to the Benghazi terrorist attacks to the House Select Committee investigating the U.S. government response to the incident. Clinton and some of her closest advisers hoped that the issue would fade and that she could postpone an extensive accounting of her e-mail practices until after she launches her presidential campaign, almost certainly in April.

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But as the story stayed alive over the weekend, the pressure for her to speak out only intensified, as a small but influential group of Democrats began publicly urging her to speak out. Clinton’s plans started coming into focus Monday afternoon, as allies confirmed that she needed to answer questions to have any hope of moving on. The United Nations is an unusual setting for a U.S. political press conference, and simultaneously gave Clinton’s team an easy way to control access to the event and while offering a convenient contrast between her discussion of women’s rights issues inside the meeting room of the UN Economic and Social Council and the political event in a hallway. In her speech, Clinton addressed the progress made on women’s rights in the two decades since the UN’s 1995 Beijing conference. Speaking ahead of Clinton, UN Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka referred to Clinton as a “future president,” drawing big cheers. The scene ahead of Clinton’s speech was chaotic as political reporters spent the morning waiting in line for UN credentials and scrambling to confirm the time and location of Clinton’s availability. No official information was forthcoming until close to noon, when Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill began responding to journalists’ questions. Merrill described what was planned as “a brief press conference," though it ultimately went for just over 20 minutes. The scene also hearkened back to Clinton's 1994 "pink press conference," when she tried to respond to pent-up tensions about Whitewater and other controversies by addressing reporters' questions from the State Dining Room of the White House. Back then, she told reporters that her sense of privacy "led me to perhaps be less understanding than I needed to of the press and the public's interest–as well as right–to know things about my husband and me."

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http://www.eonline.com/news/634025/hillary-clinton-addresses-latest-political-controversy-no-one-wants-their-personal-emails-made-public Hillary Clinton Addresses Latest Political Controversy: ''No One Wants Their Personal Emails Made Public'' By Lily Harrison, E!Online, 10 March 2015

REUTERS/Mike Segar Hillary Clinton just spoke publicly for the first time about the controversy surrounding her personal email account usage while working at the State Department. "When I got to work as Secretary of State I opted for convenience to use my personal email account which was allowed by the State Department because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," the longtime politician said at the press conference. "Looking back, it would've been better if I had simply used a second email account and carried a second phone but at the time this didn't seem like an issue…The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department." Clinton further explained to reporters, "At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails. Emails about planning Chelsea [Clinton]'s wedding or making my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends, as well as yoga routines, family vacations and other things you typically find in inboxes. No one wants their personal emails made public and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy." And shortly before opening up the floor for questions, Clinton firmly defended her actions, adding, "I took unprecedented step of making all work-related emails public."

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The presser occurred just moments after Clinton spoke at the UN at the Women's Empowerment Principles Event to address female equality issues. "There has never been a better time to be born a woman. But we are not there yet," she told a packed audience. "Empowering women can lift up societies and propel economies…It is up to us that the world our children inherit is worthy of them." This isn't exactly the first time that Clinton has spoken about her latest political scandal; in fact, she took to Twitter recently to make her stance on the issue very clear. "I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible," she wrote on March 4.

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http://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blog-view/the-role-of-business-in-advancing-womens-empowerment

The Role of Business in Advancing Women’s Empowerment By Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen, Vice President, Partnership Development and Research, BSR and Lauren Shields,Associate, HERproject, BSR BSR Blog, 8 March 2015 Donors, NGOs, and local authorities have long recognized that investing in women in low-income countries is key to development goals. Yet the development community does not always consider the private sector as a partner in advancing women’s empowerment. The assumption among development professionals is that corporate activities around women’s empowerment are “window dressing” or are limited to boardroom quotas. However, as businesses develop more ambitious agendas on women’s empowerment at corporate levels and in the emerging markets where they operate, these assumptions are becoming increasingly outdated. We believe that business can be a formidable force for positive change, and that by integrating women’s empowerment into corporate strategy, business can complement and enhance the work done by governments and NGOs. A Strategic Approach to Women’s Empowerment Women touch every aspect of business. For example, they are influential consumers of products and services. One Goldman Sachs study shows that when women’s spending and decision-making power increases, they affect consumer trends, such as household spending for family welfare, which has implications for the apparel, childcare, consumer durables, education, financial services, food, and healthcare sectors. In the workforce, the advancement of women is also crucial to business success. Companies with women in leadership outperform their competitors, with a McKinsey study finding a 55 percent increase in average company earnings before interest and tax. As businesses begin to prioritize women’s empowerment, they should be careful not to make it a “niche” issue that only the sustainability team or executive leadership addresses. Defining corporate priorities for women’s empowerment requires a strategic approach that weighs both existing initiatives and company priorities. One good place to start is the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. The WEPs provide tools and resources for businesses seeking to define a corporate strategy (BSR serves on the leadership group of the initiative), and signing the WEPs is one way to demonstrate corporate commitment to gender equality. The WEPs also serve as a community of best practice for business and other stakeholders working on women’s empowerment to share challenges and successes. Integrating Women’s Empowerment into the Business Once companies have made the decision to prioritize women’s empowerment, they should define how to support women through their core activities. As we emphasize in BSR’s Business Leadership for an Inclusive Economy program, companies can focus on three areas:

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1. Promoting decent and empowering jobs for women throughout the value chain. Good jobs drive business success by allowing companies to attract and retain the best talent, which provides the foundation for innovation, operational excellence, and stability of supply—all critical to business success. Ensuring employees along the full value chain are healthy, respected, and well-paid results in reduced absenteeism, higher productivity, and better relations between workers and management. ANN INC. has built on its strategic commitment to women by signing on to the WEPs and expanding its participation in BSR’s HERproject. The company has taken a holistic and integrated approach through its 100,000 Women Commitment, targeting three areas for action: health and well-being, financial literacy, and workplace empowerment. By 2018, ANN INC. will provide education and training to 100,000 women in its supply chain. In addition, the company has revised its supplier code of conduct to ensure that the company and its suppliers share a vision to support women. 2. Designing products and services to address women’s unique needs. Business plays a role in providing access to goods and services that help women improve their living standards and increase their mobility and potential. Companies’ product design and development teams should consider how their goods, services, and technologies can offer both benefits and risks to women. Additionally, product development teams should use innovative distribution channels to reach women even in remote communities. Standard Chartered has identified women as powerful yet overlooked consumers who have specific needs in the financial services they use. The bank developed the Diva Club account, designed specifically for female consumers in Africa. In addition to addressing banking convenience and linking to lifestyle benefits, the account responds to customer demands for networking opportunities and joint savings clubs with other women. A focus on women has helped Standard Chartered differentiate itself from its peers and connect with to its female consumers. 3. Working with local businesses to integrate women’s empowerment. Companies based in developing countries that serve as suppliers, contractors, and distributors for global or domestic markets should promote responsible employment practices, including gender diversity, equal pay for equal work, safe and healthy workplaces free of harassment and discrimination, and opportunities for women to advance. In turn, global businesses should work with their suppliers to build capacity at the local level and engage local communities. Vegpro Group, a Kenyan supplier for Marks & Spencer, has made investments in women’s health, including sexual and reproductive health, by ensuring safe working conditions and access to health services for its workers. The integrated program, implemented in partnership with BSR, provides health training and improves clinic services and nurse capacity to meet workers’ health needs. Through the program, the company can play an active role in women’s empowerment in Kenya and also deepen its relationship with international buyers.

Once a company identifies women’s empowerment as a priority and integrates women’s empowerment into core business activities, the next step is to build strategic partnerships with donors and other stakeholders. Partnerships that harness the strengths of both business and the public sector are crucial to ensuring that economic progress in developing countries is linked to individual prosperity, gender equality, and shared opportunity.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/clinton-may-pay-the-gender-card-right-into-the-white-house-2015-02-25?page=2 Opinion: Clinton may play the gender card right into the White House By Darrell Delamaide, MarketWatch, 25 February 2015 Hillary using women’s events to ready her campaign launch

Bryan Thomas WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Hillary Clinton is playing the gender card as she prepares to launch her 2016 presidential campaign and it may well be her ticket to the White House if she plays it right. All the gaffes or baggage in the world don’t seem to dampen the palpable enthusiasm in this country, among women but also among many men, for a woman candidate with a really good chance of being elected president. If there is some historical imperative at work for this country to finally get a woman president, it seems at this point that it will exclusively benefit Clinton. Clinton’s appearance this week as keynote speaker at Watermark’s Lead On Conference for Women in Silicon Valley is a fittingly hip venue for a woman born in 1947 to show that she is ready to shatter the biggest glass ceiling in the country midway through the second decade of the 21st century. It is the first of several events she will attend in the coming weeks with a focus on women, as her staff have made clear that in this new campaign, unlike much of 2008, she will fully capitalize on the fact that she is a woman rather than trying to stay gender neutral. Next week Clinton is accepting an award from Emily’s List and the week after that will speak at the Women’s Empowerment Principles conference at the United Nations in New York.

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The fact that tickets to the Silicon Valley jamboree cost $245 apiece and that Clinton reportedly is getting $300,000 for her appearance doesn’t seem to bother the tech executives who quickly bought out the event at the Santa Clara Convention Center. And if Clinton, who has been working feverishly to “hone” her pitch, can keep the focus on her message rather than on herself — a message that will include empowerment for women, equal pay, and women’s rights as well as the general Democratic message on inequality and restoring middle class prosperity — she could well start building momentum toward the primaries and the party’s convention a year from July. That of course is a long time to maintain momentum, but women have been waiting a long time for their moment and Clinton is going to make sure they identify with her as the one making it happen. For all the competition for donors and political networks and campaign staff, that is an ace-in-the-hole that Jeb Bush and other potential Republican candidates simply don’t have. National Journal writer Emily Schultheis cites new research in an article this week on Clinton’s “gender play” indicating that women can now be “360-degree candidates,” drawing on their full background and personal experience to connect with voters.This is where Clinton, however, faces a potential pitfall in letting her narrative get bogged down in the personal baggage she shares, for better or worse, with Bill Clinton. Most people in America simply don’t understand their marriage. Bill Clinton’s well-documented womanizing, which after all led to the country’s second-ever presidential impeachment, makes their relationship a puzzle. Maybe this won’t, or shouldn’t, make a difference, but it could make it difficult to share personal experiences that people can relate to without appearing false. In general, the question of authenticity will become more important the more Clinton relies on gender. She has in the past often come across as calculating or even devious, and this will be hard to reconcile with efforts to connect to women. However, it is a potent force if Clinton can harness it. It could be enough to make people forget that this woman lives in a bubble of privilege, has stood by while her family foundation reaped billions in contributions from people who may want the ear of a future president, and has watched while her husband collects millions in speaking fees not because he is so knowledgeable about world affairs after being out of office for 15 years but because he may once again live in the White House. If there is some historical imperative at work for this country to finally get a woman president, it seems at this point that it will exclusively benefit Clinton.

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She has successfully scared off or co-opted other Democratic women — now that everyone seems to be taking Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at her word that she will not run — and no Republican women have shown any desire to enter an already-crowded field of presidential aspirants. It won’t be enough at that point for a male GOP candidate to pick a woman running mate to neutralize the gender factor. Clinton, in short, may not be the ideal candidate for president, her mix of policies may not be just the right balance for all factions of the Democratic Party, but the country, and especially the women in this country, appears to be ready for a woman president and she is in the right place at the right time.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/us/politics/to-break-highest-glass-ceiling-clinton-gives-nod-to-gender.html?ref=topics Clinton ’16 Would Give Gender More of a Role Than Clinton ’08 Did By Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin New York Times, 24 February 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton at an event in Canada in January. Ever since the birth of her granddaughter, in September, Mrs. Clinton has infused her public comments with references to being a new grandmother.CreditJohn Woods/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The last time Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for president, she seemed torn over whether to emphasize her chance to make history, or to play down her gender and reassure voters that she was tough enough for the job. This time there is no question: Mrs. Clinton’s potential to break what she has called “the highest and hardest glass ceiling” is already central to her fledgling 2016 presidential campaign. But rather than the assertive feminism associated with her years as first lady, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign message will be subtler. It will involve frequent references to being a mother and grandmother and to how her family has inspired her to embrace policies that she believes would help middle-class families. As one Democrat close to her put it, voters have learned that she is tough; now she can also present herself as a sensitive candidate capable of nurturing the nation at a difficult time. It is a remarkable turnabout from her White House bid in 2008, when Mrs. Clinton seemed ever mindful of the admonition from her chief strategist then, Mark Penn, that his “FWP,” or First Woman President, plan needed to emphasize toughness because voters did “not want someone who would be the first mama, especially in this kind of world.”

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She and her husband, Bill, with their granddaughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. Ever since the child’s birth in September, Mrs. Clinton has infused her public comments with grandmotherly references.CreditJon Davidson/Office of President Clinton

The world is no less scary a place now, but Mrs. Clinton’s calculation about the electorate’s expectations for its president has plainly changed. After a relatively quiet public schedule this year, Mrs. Clinton spoke at a women’s conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday — the first in a series of addresses in the coming weeks focused on women. Ever since the birth of Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, in September, Mrs. Clinton has infused her public comments with references to being a new grandmother. And some of her longest-serving advisers are open about their intention not to repeat what they see as one of their most crucial mistakes from the 2008 primaries. Ann Lewis, a senior adviser in that race, called the decision not to accentuate Mrs. Clinton’s gender — which ceded the mantle of barrier-breaker entirely to Barack Obama — the “biggest missed opportunity” of that primary contest. “It was not a major theme of the campaign,” Ms. Lewis said. “I think she clearly understands this time the significance of having a woman president of the United States,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia, who served as Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman in 2008. He added that Mrs. Clinton’s gender was “a tremendous asset.” Mrs. Clinton herself acknowledged the criticism on Tuesday, in a question-and-answer session after her paid speech here before a crowd of female tech professionals. When asked whether she would make child care and paid leave central to a campaign, and whether she should have done so more forcefully in her 2008 campaign, she said, “I certainly am trying to learn from what I did right and what I didn’t in thinking about doing this again.” In the same appearance, she described how her granddaughter’s birth made her even more invested in the country’s future; recalled being pregnant with Chelsea as a lawyer in Little Rock, Ark.; and described struggling as a young working mother. “The family issue, putting family first, creating more supportive work environments,” Mrs. Clinton said, is “not a nice thing to do — this is a win-win” that she said was “bubbling to the top of the list” of issues on people’s minds.

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The decision to run more emphatically as a female candidate is rooted in a strategic assessment of the demands of this campaign and of a changing country. With Republicans determined to portray Mrs. Clinton as an aging relic — she will turn 69 just before Election Day next year — her supporters believe her campaign offers a powerful rejoinder to the charge that she does not represent change. Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, put it more sharply: “If she is yesterday’s news, I must have missed that moment in history where we could say ‘Madam President.’ ” Mrs. Clinton’s advisers believe that her four years as secretary of state have only burnished her image as a leader and erased whatever doubts may have lingered about her experience and gravitas. Perhaps even more important, though, is an emerging consensus that the cultural and political landscape has changed since 2008. With growing numbers of women atop major corporations, more female members of Congress than ever and the news media apt to pounce on misogyny or anything resembling it, the terrain on which Mrs. Clinton will run this time is likely to be noticeably more favorable when it comes to gender. “Sexist attacks are much harder to get away with now,” said Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s List, the advocacy group that seeks to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights. She noted the criticism that Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, received this month for shushing a female CNBC anchor during an interview. Indeed, the people in Mrs. Clinton’s orbit have come to believe that gender is far more an advantage to her this time around, in part from seeing the degree to which some Republicans have hurt themselves in recent elections on subjects like rape. Her 2016 campaign, they suggested, is far more likely to seize on opportunities to stoke outrage if someone asks, as a woman in the crowd did at one videotaped John McCain event in 2007, “How do we beat the bitch?” Republicans are already bracing for it. “They’re going to play the gender card more openly this time, which means it’s going to be a special challenge for our nominee to not fall into the trap of appearing at any level to criticize her on that,” said Dick Wadhams, a Republican strategist. In March, Mrs. Clinton will participate in two events tied to the 20th anniversary of her address in Beijing at the United Nations’ fourth World Conference on Women. There in 1995, speaking more forcefully on human rights than any American official had before on Chinese soil, she cataloged a litany of abuse afflicting women around the world and faulted China’s record on women’s issues. Mrs. Clinton will also speak at an anniversary gala for Emily’s List and at an awards ceremony in memory of Robin Toner, the first woman to be the national political correspondent of The New York Times, who died of cancer in 2008. One challenge for Mrs. Clinton will be how to frame her lifelong advocacy for women as a universal message that highlights her unique credentials but also does not seem aimed only at women.

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Once she is officially a candidate, Mrs. Clinton is unlikely to play into Republican caricatures of her as a divisive feminist warrior by highlighting her global advocacy for women and girls. Rather, her advisers say, she can be expected to weave gender into matters of economic fairness and opportunity. Mrs. Clinton offered a preview of her message at a campaign event in Philadelphia in October for Tom Wolf, a Democrat who would be elected governor of Pennsylvania in November. Proudly acknowledging her “grandmother glow,” Mrs. Clinton linked the weeks-old girl born to her daughter, Chelsea, to a theme about economic policies for a struggling middle class. “While Bill and I were in the hospital waiting for little Charlotte to make her grand entrance, one of the nurses came up to me and said: ‘Thank you. Thank you for fighting for paid leave,’ ” Mrs. Clinton said. “She sees families every day who struggle to balance work and parenthood, and she does it herself,” she said of the nurse. Then, Mrs. Clinton added, drawing applause: “The fact is, a 20th-century economy will not work for 21st-century families.” Some Democrats said that ideally, Mrs. Clinton would leave it to surrogates to make the most direct, gender-based appeals. “Barack Obama didn’t need to go out there and say, ‘Elect me, I’m going to be the first black president,’” said Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist. “Other people did that, and that’s where it will fall for Hillary.” Democrats in contact with Mrs. Clinton say she appears far more comfortable about presenting herself to voters in all her complexity than she was in 2008. “I can tell when I talk to her how relaxed she is and how comfortable she is,” Ms. McCaskill said. “She is not in a defensive crouch. She gets that America has to see all of her.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-19/hillary-clinton-to-headline-united-nations-women-s-conference Hillary Clinton to Headline United Nations Women's Conference By Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg Politics, 19 February 2015 A month of women-centric events begins next week. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will address a major United Nations gathering on women’s rights next month, just as the Clinton Foundation releases a major report on women and girls more than a year in the making. Clinton is scheduled to be the keynote speaker on March 10 at the Women’s Empowerment Principles gathering in New York. The gathering will mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, which came out of a major UN conference on women’s issues. Clinton “will reflect on progress made in implementing the agenda set in Beijing two decades ago” and share findings from the foundation's "No Ceilings: The Full Participation Report," WEP said. She will also “outline an agenda to accelerate the full participation of women and girls around the world.” The report’s release, set for March 9, and the speech will come in the midst of a month of women-centric events for Clinton. On Tuesday, she's headed to the Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women, where she will be interviewed by technology journalist Kara Swisher. On March 3, she will be honored at EMILY’s List’s 30th anniversary gala and given the We Are EMILY Award, which is given to “extraordinary women who have made a significant impact on our nation through their consistent leadership and inspiration” to the group. Clinton is also set to keynote the March 23 awards ceremony for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, given in memory of the late New York Times political reporter Robin Toner. Neither the Clinton Foundation, which has hosted the "No Ceilings" project, nor Clinton's spokesman responded to requests for comment.

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http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/02/19/hillary-clinton-women-united-nations/ Hillary Clinton to focus on women's rights in upcoming speeches By Catalina Camia, USA Today, 19 February

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Canada. (AP) If Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to road test a stump speech, the next few weeks will give her plenty of opportunities. Clinton is scheduled to speak at several events over the next month where women’s rights will be the focus. The likely presidential candidate has long made women’s empowerment a priority — whether it was as first lady, a U.S. senator or secretary of State. Clinton is the keynote speaker Tuesday at a conference for women in Silicon Valley and will be interviewed by Kara Swisher of Re/Code, the technology website. Then on March 3, Clinton will be honored by EMILY’s List, as the political group that supports Democratic women marks its 30th anniversary. Perhaps the biggest event will be her March 10 remarks at the United Nations marking the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action — an outgrowth of a major conference on women she attended as first lady. Clinton led the U.S. delegation to China in 1995 and delivered a scathing speech on the treatment of women around the world. “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all,” she said 20 years ago. Bloomberg Politics notes Clinton will use the U.N. gathering to present the recommendations from No Ceilings: The Full Participation Report, which stems from the initiative she launched through the Clinton Family Foundation last year. Clinton will “outline an agenda to accelerate the full participation of

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women and girls around the world,” according to the statement released Thursday about the U.N.’s Women’s Empowerment Principles event. Finally, Clinton will deliver the keynote address March 23 when the Toner Prize is awarded that honors the best local or national story about politics. The award is named after the late Robin Toner, a New York Times correspondent.

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General Event Coverage – Op-Eds http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-broderick/male-business-leaders-nee_b_6939208.html?1427295370 Male Business Leaders Need to Support Women's Empowerment By Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commisison and Joe Keefe, President and CEO, Pax World Funds Huffington Post, 25 March 2015 On March 10-11 at The United Nations, leaders from government, civil society and the business sector convened to discuss how business can be a force for change in advancing gender equality across the globe. This call for business to play a leadership role in advancing women could not be more urgent.

Despite progress on some fronts, the fact remains that women endure various forms of discrimination, harassment, violence, marginalization and exclusion across the globe. In one place it may be honor killings, in another genital mutilation, or trafficking, or young girls attacked for trying to attend school, or women not permitted to drive automobiles, or earning 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, or holding only 17 percent of Fortune 500 board seats. There can be no doubt that gender inequality is the great human rights issue of our time.

It is also the great economic challenge of our time. Can you imagine how much wealth is locked up inside outdated, patriarchal structures around the globe? Unprecedented economic value will be unleashed, and an unprecedented economic boom will occur, if women are afforded the same educational and economic opportunities as men.

McKinsey has reported that, as a result of women entering the workforce over the past four decades, GDP in the U.S. is about 25 percent higher than it would have been.Goldman Sachs economist Kevin Day has calculated that eliminating the remaining gap between male and female employment would boost GDP in the U.S. by 9 percent, the eurozone's GDP by 13 percent and Japan's by 16 percent. Booz & Co. reports that raising female employment to male levels could increase GDP by 10 percent in South Africa, 12 percent in the United Arab Emirates and 34 percent in Egypt. And there is now a compelling body of research underscoring that where women are better represented on corporate boards and in corporate management, companies simply perform better and become more profitable. The Women's Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN Women, are premised on the fact that women's full participation in economic life is essential to build strong economies and establish more stable and just societies. The Principles call on businesses to:

Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality Treat all women and men fairly at work -- respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers Promote education, training and professional development for women Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality

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Most business leaders today, of course, are men. It is vitally important that these male leaders become engaged on the critically important issue of gender equality, not only because it is the right thing to do but because it is the smart thing to do. Indeed, if men take up this battle, we are convinced that we can achieve the transformative change that is needed.

In Australia, one of us launched the group, Male Champions of Change, by identifying a dozen powerful men in some of Australia's most preeminent organizations, and now that group has grown to 25 of the most prominent leaders in Australia. The group meets frequently in person and is a source of rich discussion, particularly at the intersection of disciplines or sectors. Putting the Chief of Army beside the head of a bank, for example, results in thought-provoking conversations about job flexibility and leadership. The fact that these men would not ordinarily come together is part of the group's appeal. Some of these leaders have taken bold steps to advance gender equality within their organizations as a result of this dialogue.

In the United States, one of us has helped lead efforts to organize investors to pressure companies to add more women to their boards of directors, through letter writing, proxy voting, dialogues and shareholder resolutions.

Together, we have found that increasing numbers of male leaders in the business sectors -- particularly fathers of daughters -- are beginning to understand that there is not only a strong moral case for advancing gender equality but a strong business case as well. Gender diverse leadership simply leads to better results. Women's advancement is good for the bottom line.

The global economy is dominated by great businesses that have vital interests in advancing gender equality. Just as importantly, these global brands are some of the most successful and admired organizations in the world. When they speak, people will listen. Companies like Microsoft and Coca-Cola (who have already signed the Women's Empowerment Principles), Apple and Google, Nike and American Express can send a message that will reverberate across the globe: that gender inequality is no longer acceptable; that gender discrimination will no longer be tolerated. If this vital message is to be sent, male business leaders must get involved. We call on businesses across the globe to endorse the Women's Empowerment Principles and join the fight for gender equality. Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia, and Joe Keefe, CEO of Pax World Funds, are Co-Chairs of the Leadership Group of the Women's Empowerment Principles (www.weprinciples.org).

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http://www.afr.com/opinion/gender-equality-is-not-about-changing-women-20150318-1m1w1z Gender equality is not about changing women by Elizabeth Shaw, Financial Review, 18 March 2015 Governments and civil society organisations from around the world are gathered in New York for the annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which runs until Friday, March 20. This year marks 20 years since the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted at the 4th World Conference on Women in 1995, which provided a road map to achieve gender equality by 2015. However, today we face the stark reality that not one country has fulfilled this commitment. Despite the slow progress that has been made, UN member states are clear that alone they cannot achieve gender equality. Crucial to UN women's strategy for the coming years is the involvement of the corporate sector – because equality means business. This is particularly pertinent in the Australian context, following the Australian government's leadership in November last year in negotiating a commitment in the G20 communiqué that countries around the world decrease the gender gap in workforce participation 25 per cent by 2025. For Australia, achieving the target is a key productivity lever, and would see an additional 300,000 jobs created for women. The government has a significant role in policy and legislative interventions that provide an enabling environment for this to take place – such as affordable, accessible childcare and a tax system that incentivises women to remain in the workforce. However, the actions of the corporate sector will be vital if the gender gap in workforce participation is to be reduced. While many companies in Australia have adopted policies aimed at keeping women in the workforce, the difference between policy and reality is often stark. An example of this is the discrimination experienced by 49 per cent of working mothers during pregnancy, parental leave or return to work. The 2014 Pregnancy and Return to Work Report by the Australian Human Rights Commission details the significant impact pregnancy discrimination has on women's workforce participation, with 22 per cent of mothers who reported experiencing discrimination at work during their pregnancy not returning to the workforce as an employee. UN Women and the UN Global Compact have developed the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) to provide best practice to businesses seeking to promote gender equality. At the annual WEPs summit held in New York last week, business leaders discussed key strategies aimed at increasing women's participation in the workforce and representation in leadership roles. Ideas that emerged from discussions included: * Moving away from relying solely on diversity councils to influence widespread change to a new model which drives diversity throughout their entire business. This approach reflects the experience of many businesses like SAP who have found that systemic change cannot be delivered by HR alone. * The recognition that many discussions and initiatives in this space have focused on trying to change women – to make them tougher negotiators, better self-promoters and more aggressive leaders – and

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miss the point that the value of diversity is diversity. A better way to approach the differences between men and women in the workplace (and diversity more generally) is equipping managers with the skills they need to manage the different needs of employees. * The importance of encouraging men to work flexibly, so that flexibility moves from being a women's issue to an employee issue, and companies become better at managing flexibility. Women's participation and success in the workplace will be facilitated by men taking on a greater share of domestic and care-giving responsibilities. The commitment of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) to men realigning their work and family responsibilities (through the implementation of ORF's Equal Opportunities Plan) saw their director-general, Alexander Wrabetz, presented with a 2015 WEPs award. * Simply having appropriate workplace policies (such as flexible working or paid parental leave) in place isn't enough – for companies to retain female talent, they need to ensure these initiatives are able to be utilised without career setback. * The need to address the "face time bias" – where employees who are seen at work are considered reliable, conscientious and trustworthy and the more they are seen on the job outside working hours, the more they are considered committed and valuable by their colleagues – irrespective of the outcomes they actually achieve. Global clothing chain The Gap discussed their Results Only Work (ROW) approach, which involved training managers to evaluate performance on outcomes achieved, rather than time in the office. * The importance of "male champions of change" – based on the Australian model introduced by sex discrimination commissioner Elizabeth Broderick that brings together prominent leaders and CEOs to be a public voice on the importance of gender diversity in organisations and challenge the status quo in their respective fields. Ultimately, we are in a moment in history where we need to choose disruptive policies that are going to accelerate progress. As Hillary Clinton said opening the WEPs summit, "The full participation of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century – not just for women, for everyone." Let's commit to finishing what we started. Elizabeth Shaw is the president of the Australian National Committee for UN Women and a manager in KPMG's advisory practice. KPMG signed on to the WEPs in 2014.

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http://www.empoweringwomeninfo.com/leadership/locally-and-globally-women-are-essential-for-success?utm_medium=unwomen In recognition of International Women’s Day 2015, U.N. Women examines the gender inequalities that still persist today in the U.S. and around the world. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, U.N. Women USA Today, 7 March 2015

At a special event for the HeForShe campaign, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson called on men and boys worldwide to join the movement for gender equality today. Photo: Simon Luethi

It’s 2015. Yet, no country in the world has yet achieved gender equality. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2014 shows that, despite some progress, women’s participation in the economy remains a big challenge. Progress is too slow. The overall gender gap for economic participation and opportunity currently stands at 60 percent worldwide, having closed by only four percentage points since 2006. On this trajectory, it will take 81 years to close the gap. That’s the year 2095, and we will not be around to see that day.

A force for growth As we commemorate International Women’s Day, its important to acknowledge this ‘progress’ is not good enough. We need big, bold changes. Evidence shows us that women are a powerful force for economic growth and businesses, toward a better life for all. We know from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that gender equality in labor participation rates would have a strong positive impact on GDP growth—globally it could rise by as much as 2 percent or $1.5 trillion if women and men entrepreneurs could participate equally. Other studies have shown that Fortune 500 companies with the most women managers have shareholder returns 34 percent higher than those with the fewest women managers. Closer to home, U.S. GDP could increase by more than 9 percent if women’s pay was equal to that of men.

"The overall gender gap for economic participation and opportunity currently stands at 60 percent worldwide, having closed by only four percentage points since 2006. On this trajectory, it will take 81 years to close the gap. "

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Due to gender inequalities, far more men than women start, grow and expand their businesses today. Reasons vary by country, but women’s and men’s access to human, financial and social capital (e.g., networks) remains unequal globally.

The path to progress Social norms and attitudes also influence women’s business lives. For example, it is taken for granted in many countries that women should be solely responsible for care of children, sick and the elderly, and other household and family responsibilities. Even where it is acceptable for mothers to work outside the home, they lack access to child care.

At U.N. Women increasing women’s economic empowerment lies at the heart of our mission toward women’s rights and gender equality. Wherever I travel as the head of U.N. Women, I urge politicians and the private sector to move faster and make bolder changes, from increasing women’s leadership in board rooms, to gender-responsive policies for supply chains and factory floors.

The Women’s Empowerment Principles, a U.N. Women-U.N. Global Compact initiative, offer practical guidance to the private sector on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community.

Globally and locally, we work with governments, NGOs and community-based groups to support women entrepreneurs in emerging markets with mentoring and coaching, helping women to access networks. These women are positive role models and creators of jobs for other women too.

PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA, editorial@mediaplanet.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/achieving-gender-equality-2030-ban-ki-moon Achieving gender equality by 2030 Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, LinkedIn Infuencer, 5 March 2015

In 1995, 47,000 people streamed into Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. They had a single purpose in mind: gender equality and the empowerment of all women, everywhere. The conference was a ground-breaking event. It gave birth to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights. It recognized a simple yet powerful principle: women’s rights are human rights – and it set out a very clear case for full equality and a very clear path for getting there. This Sunday, people around the world will mark a special anniversary – the 20th International Women’s Day since the landmark agreement. The Day is an opportunity to celebrate the progress we have seen over the last 20 years. Many more girls are now in school. Many more women are now educated. Many more mothers now survive pregnancy and childbirth. These are encouraging steps forward. Yet this International Women’s Day is also a wake-up call – because we are very far from reaching the vision set out by the thousands who gathered in Beijing twenty years ago. For most women in most parts of the world, but especially in the least-developed countries, little has changed. Life remains as difficult for many women today as it was for their mothers or grandmothers. They are afforded few opportunities to create a better life for themselves and their children. They are disproportionately affected by poverty, exploitation and violence. In recent years we have seen rising wave of violent extremism directly targeting women’s rights, invariably placing limits on women’s access to education and health services, restricting their participation in economic and political life, and seeking to control their bodies and lives.

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Women face several obstacles to participating in political life, including discriminatory laws in some countries. Despite their proven abilities as leaders and their right to participate equally in democratic governance, women are underrepresented in leading positions and as voters. While the percentage of women parliamentarians has nearly doubled over the last 20 years, this only translates to a global average of 22 percent of women in parliament today.

Discrimination remains a thick glass ceiling. Women still earn less than men for doing the same work. In the majority of countries, women’s wages represent between 70 and 90 per cent of men’s. Women are also more likely than men to be in vulnerable employment with low pay, poor working conditions, little job security, and no health or pension benefits, and are often unprotected by labour laws. In the corporate sector, the lack of women in leadership positions is stark. One global survey of companies found that only 18.3 per cent had a top-level female manager. Yet the research is clear: closing the gender gap makes businesses more competitive and companies with more women leaders perform better. An analysis of Fortune 500 companies, for instance, found that those with the greatest representation of women in management positions delivered a total return to shareholders that was 34 per cent higher than for companies with the lowest representation. We know that empowering women and girls brings advantages to businesses, communities and countries alike. Our aim now, 20 years after the Beijing conference, is to achieve gender equality by 2030. This is an attainable goal, but only if we take immediate action and call on the progress already made to show the way forward. We need governments to step up and implement the Beijing Platform for Action. We need the private sector to tackle gender inequality head on by addressing unconscious bias and stereotypes, developing family-friendly policies for men and women workers, getting women into non-traditional jobs, and expanding opportunities for women entrepreneurs.

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As the business case for gender equality grows stronger, more and more companies are turning to the UN’s Women’s Empowerment Principles for practical guidance developed for the private sector to harness women’s full potential in the workplace, marketplace and community. Through the Principles, a joint initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN Women, business has rightly been brought to the table as a partner. More than 865 business leaders around the world have demonstrated leadership on gender equality by publicly signing a CEO Statement of Support for the Principles. I strongly encourage others to sign on and to take all measures to ensure that women are given the opportunities they deserve. As the UN celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, there is no better time to move forward together once and for all for gender equality. It’s in our common interest. Equality for women benefits us all.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-l-paluszek/hillary-clinton-to-reenga_b_6771450.html Hillary Clinton to Re-Engage With UN Women's Empowerment: A Prelude to 2016? John L. Paluszek, Executive Producer of "Business In Society Huffington Post, 27 February 2015 "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights." Remember that proclamation? OK, you may not remember. It was twenty years ago when Hillary Clinton said it and produced what some think was a "watershed moment for women in the fight for gender equality across the globe." It was when she led the U.S. delegation at the 1985 Beijing Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women. Much has happened on women's rights -- women's empowerment -- since then. And, of course, Secretary Clinton has not exactly been dormant. Now, as conjecture mounts on her possible 2016 presidential candidacy, she has selected a comfortable upcoming forum for moving in that direction -- a major public event recognizing and projecting progress on women's empowerment. On March 10th, she'll keynote the 2015 Women's Empowerment Principles Event at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. A few months ago, The Washington Post ran a headline, "Women love Hillary Clinton. Men? Not so Much," in reporting that its public opinion polling showed "that women say that they would support Clinton by a striking 61-33 percent ... a 25-point gap between Clinton's margin among women and among men."http://wapo.st/1o0wRPL Fast-forward: Sunday,The New York Times columnist Nate Cohn predicted, "If a candidate as ever been inevitable -- for the [presidential] -- nomination it is Mrs. Clinton today." http://nyti.ms/17xDENV Of course, issues remain: Current questions about the Clinton Foundation's global network of donors and their possible political influence will have to be addressed. And some say that "the women's vote" is an illusion. Still... It's worth pondering the "UN Women's Empowerment Principles Event" as an opportunity for Secretary Clinton. Several hundred women (and men) leaders of the women empowerment movement from around the world will participate; a plethora of national media can be expected to cover it (Business In Society will be there, as we were last year); and the program agenda, "Unlimited Potential: Business Partners For Gender Equality" will resonate with a spectrum of "infuentials" who will have impact on the 2016 campaign. It's significant that in recent years the "UN Women's Empowerment Principles" program has attracted many business leaders in companies committed to corporate social responsibility and sustainable

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development. Some 860 Chief Executive Officers have signed on to WEP with a "CEO Statement" that concludes: "Equal treatment of women and men is not just the right thing to do -- it is also good for business... The seven steps of the Women's Empowerment Principles will help us to realize these opportunities. "We encourage business leaders to join us and use the Principles as guidance for actions we can all take in the workplace, marketplace and community to empower women and benefit our companies and societies." In her keynote address Secretary Clinton "will reflect on the progress made in implementing the agenda set in Beijing two decades ago." In other words, she will tell a great many of us "What's Working" in the pursuit of gender equality. Arguably, a female president of the United States wouldn't hurt.

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Media Partner – The Guardian’s Women in Leadership http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2015/mar/19/geena-davis--sexism-wasnt-present-in-what-w-show-kids?CMP=new_1194&CMP= Geena Davis: ‘I just assumed sexism wasn't present in what we show kids’ By Lottie O'Conor, Guardian Women in Leadership, 17 March 2015 In family rated films and children’s television, just one in four speaking characters are female. Lottie O’Conor meets the Hollywood star on a mission to change this

Geena Davis: ‘What are we saying to kids when the female characters are hyper-sexualised, narrowly stereotyped or not even there?’ Photograph: Andres Wong/UN Global Compact

For me, and possibly the majority of my generation, Geena Davis will always be Thelma Dickinson, one half of the duo that many believed would kick the female Hollywood stereotype for good. I have no idea how many times my teenage self watched Thelma and Louise (we’re certainly into double figures) but I’m pretty sure I would never have guessed I would one day be sitting in a hotel in New York talking to Davis about gender inequality in film and TV.

Sadly, Thelma and Louise didn’t herald a seismic shift in the portrayal of women on screen. Twenty four years after the film’s release, research from Women in Film and TV revealed that females comprise 12% of protagonists, 29% of major characters, and 30% of all speaking characters in the top 100 grossing films.

So it is that I find myself sitting opposite Davis in a conference room at the Wyndham New Yorker, where she is to deliver the closing remarks at the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual event.

We are here to talk about the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, founded by Davis to address the issues of gender imbalance and stereotyping in Hollywood, with a particular focus on children’s programming. She acknowledges that as an actress, she has been fortunate to get her “fair share” of interesting roles throughout her career, but that it’s impossible to ignore the fact that “there are fewer parts for women and less opportunity to do interesting and challenging things”.

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“What I didn’t know until my daughter was a toddler,” she continues, “was that this holds true in what’s made for kids. I was horrified that there seemed to be far fewer female characters than male characters in what’s made for little kids in the 21st century. I just assumed that had been taken care of; been thought about; that that kind of sexism wasn’t present in what we’re showing to kids.

Her institute commissioned the largest piece of research ever on gender depictions in media. Spanning a 20-year period, it proved what Davis had feared: in family rated films and children’s television, for every one female speaking character there are three males, while female characters make up just 17% of crowd scenes.

“What are we saying to kids when the female characters are hyper-sexualised, narrowly stereotyped or not even there? The message clearly is girls are not as important as boys, women are not as important as men and they take this all in completely unconsciously.

“Popular media is constantly hammering home the message that women and girls are second-class citizens. All the efforts that we put in to try and erase it, all the important things that we must do to empower women and girls, are being undermined by this unconscious message that women and girls aren’t as valuable as men.”

As a recognised and respected face in the industry, Davis has been able to approach producers, directors and studio executives directly to discuss the issue and share her research “in a private and collegial manner”. Many people, she says, had simply never realised that this issue existed. “I’d say ‘have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in G and PG movies?’ and they would very often name a movie with one female character as proof that gender inequality was not a problem any more.”

Was it an intimidating prospect, I want to know, openly criticising such a powerful industry? Davis is diplomatic, repeating her belief that the dearth of female characters is “clearly not a conscious thing”. Content creators have been largely open to hearing about her research, she says, and many have actively asked her to help provide further research or to make changes to an existing project.

I suggest this unconscious bias against female characters may have something to do with the fact that the top levels of the film and TV industries are dominated by men. Davis agrees wholeheartedly.

“There is, I think, in so many sectors of society and so many industries, this tendency to hire people that look like you and people that have the same sort of perspective that you have. It feels untested and unfamiliar to move outside of that. Even in Hollywood, male writers often express a fear of writing female characters.”

She is quick to point out however, that it also works the other way: research shows that if a project has a female director or writer the percentage of female characters on screen goes up.

Changing the gender balance at the highest tiers of Hollywood seems to me like an intimidating, time-consuming process, but Davis takes a straightforward approach. She is adamant that the screen is the one place where we have the power to make an immediate change, and one that will directly affect future generations.

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“Take whatever is already written and, before you shoot it, change a bunch of first names to female first names. Now you’ve got a great, probably balanced cast. It’s not rocket science. There’s not some special weird criteria that you must fit. What you have to do is make characters of all stripes, of all colours, of all kinds of people.’

Later, in her closing address, she expands on this point, saying: “We can change the future through what people see. If they see it they can be it.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2015/mar/17/if-we-dont-actively-and-intentionally-include-women-the-system-will-exclude-them 'If we don’t actively and intentionally include women, the system will exclude them' By Lottie O'Conor, Guardian Women in Leadership, 17 March 2015 Set an example, never stop learning and use your network to change the world. Here are some of the lessons we took away from this year’s Women’s Empowerment Principles event

Emma Watson’s speech at a previous UN event kicked off a debate on the role of men in the fight for gender equality. Photograph: JASON SZENES/EPA

Around ten minutes before the closing remarks at last week’s Women’s Empowerment Principles annual event, my laptop decided that it was done for the day, and switched itself off. Up until that point, I had spent most of the conference madly typing, trying to record as much as I possibly could in the live blog, while simultaneously trying to think ahead to what was up next.

While a power outage is far from ideal at that particular moment in time, those few minutes while the laptop grudgingly rebooted gave me an opportunity to stop, look around and think about the messages that had really resonated with me during the course of the event.

True gender equality can only be achieved if women and men work together

Without fail, every time an article is published about gender equality or how we can get more women into leadership roles, someone in the comments will hit back with the question: ‘what about the men?’

What they are failing to understand is that gender equality is about the men. It’s about everyone; it’s about moving forward towards a world where people judged on what they say, what they do, what they achieve and what they change. They are not judged first and foremost on whether they happen to have been born male or female.

In the same vein, this isn’t something that will be realistically achievable if only half the population is on board. In the fight for women’s empowerment, we need men to work with us. This was raised by Emma Watson at the launch of the HeforShe campaign and formed the premise of Elizabeth Broderick’s address on the second day of the conference.

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Broderick shared the inspiring story of the Male Champions of Change: a group formed by bringing together some of Australia’s ‘most influential and diverse male CEOs and chairpersons.’ The group harnesses its considerable collective influence to fight for fair representation of women, and ensures that the business community remains engaged with the issue of female empowerment. ‘If we don’t actively and intentionally include women, the system will exclude them,’ she concluded.

Access to technology can change lives

We talk a lot about women in technology, the dearth of female talent and how we can encourage more women to move into this heavily male-dominated industry. But there is another side to the women and technology issue, which focusses on the huge advantages that access to technology can offer and how we can literally save lives by improving this access.

Bruce Campbell, director of the technical division at UNFPA spoke as part of a panel on women and technology, highlighting some of the positive changes that can be made by improving access to technology. ‘We’re really excited about the potential of technology to get access to services to young people, particularly young girls,’ he told me.

Much of this focusses on unplanned pregnancies and sexual health, providing resources such as access to informative chat rooms sharing sexual health information and clinic referrals, or education programmes.

We can harness the competitive spirit of business as a power for good

Businesses actively track their peers when it comes to leadership, products or policy, they need to do the same for diversity. Pay transparency is one way to do this.

Several conference speakers spoke of the benefits of conducting a transparent pay analysis and publicising the fact that they have done away with the pay gap.Recent reforms mean that for larger companies this will eventually become the norm rather than the exception, but why wait another year? Speaking out on this issue not only pushes other companies and industries to follow suit, it has also been proven to boost morale, improve employee retention and engender brand loyalty.

Honesty and a willingness to learn can make business more human

A personal highlight of the conference was hearing Sally Krawcheck’s keynote address on day two. The standout sentiment was honesty: she spoke with a rare candour about the mistakes she has made in her career, getting fired and her story behind the financial crisis. I spoke to her afterwards and asked whether she believes in learning more from failure than from success.

‘I learn every day. My goal is not to stop learning, be it through micro failures or micro successes,’ she explained. ‘Certainly the failures are the ones that stick with you because you have the big emotional scar across your brain… But you learn from everything. Sometimes people can stop learning, and for me that’s a boring career.’

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Our networks are about more than just getting ahead

The single most important message that I took away from the conference was that each one of us, as individuals has the power to drive this message forward. There are currently over 1000 companies that have signed up to the Women’s Empowerment Principles. On the first day of the conference, after welcoming delegates and guests, the Guardian’s Jo Confino asked ‘what if each of the companies that have signed up to the WEPs convinced ten others to do the same?’

We all have networks. Some are larger and more influential than others, but we all have work colleagues, industry associates, friends and friends of friends. I think our natural instinct is often to focus on what these networks can do for us - how they can help us get that next job or climb the ladder that little bit faster - but perhaps we should think bigger and ask ourselves how they can help to spread positive messages and instigate real, lasting change.

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http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/live/2015/mar/10/live-blog-womens-empowerment-principles-annual-conference-2015-hillary-clinton Live blog: Women's Empowerment Principles annual conference 2015 By Lottie O’Connor, Guardian Women in Leadership, 11 March 2015 This year’s event marks the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. Join us for live updates as the business community discusses the advancement of gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community NOTE: Below is a sampling of posts from the live blog on 5-6 March. Please visit the URL above for the full thread.

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http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/joining-world-s-experts-women-s-empowerment Joining the World’s Experts on Women’s Empowerment By Antoine Andrews, 7 April 2015, Symantec Blog As a founding signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP) (a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact), Symantec has been a key stakeholder in one of the leading global dialogues on gender diversity. Recently, I was honored to attend the WEP’s Leadership Group Meeting and Annual Event in New York City. As part of the CSW59/Beijing+20 (2015)program[1], the event brought together over 350 individuals - the leadership of the WEP principles, government, business leaders and experts in gender equity and empowerment to “focus on concrete steps and actions that business can take to advance gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community”. Additionally, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing and International Women’s Day, WEP rang the bell for gender diversity at NASDAQ to culminate an international bell ringing that began in Egypt and traveled to Nigeria, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and India to raise awareness of the importance of gender equality. I was amazed at the diversity of attendees at the Annual Event, and I cannot recall an event I have been to that brought together such prestigious attendees from so many different regions of the world. The varying perspectives and cultures were fascinating. The keynote was delivered by former Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who discussed the progress that has been made since the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing. Secretary Clinton was joined by the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Academy Award winning actress Geena Davis, and others providing impactful case studies and perspectives of how the WEPs have been applied around the world.

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Former Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, addresses attendees of the WEP Annual Event. Changing Lives through Economic Empowerment A key theme throughout the two days was the importance of economic empowerment – how financial stability plays such a pivotal role in the advancement of women. For example, one project aimed to empower women in the Central Mountains of Guanajuato in Mexico where males tend to go work in the US to earn money for their families back home. Over time the men often find a new life in the US and the women are left struggling, lacking the skills and money to support their children. 17 years ago, Karla Rodriguez Helguero initiated a project that was meant to empower women by producing marmalade of various fruits (pineapple, apple, mango, strawberry). During the first year these women received an income under $80 USD per month. In 2006, the Toks (a restaurant chain in Mexico, with more than 130+ restaurants nationwide) met the women and made a strawberry marmalade order for $25,000 USD. In 2014, these women sold more than $500,000 USD to the restaurant chain. Karla and Toks have been social agents benefiting and changing the lives of more than 120 families of the community through education, health, feeding, housing and clothing. Tackling Unconscious Bias I was also invited to join a panel on Unconscious Bias that examined how our individual biases contribute to inequality. I elaborated on my experience as a diversity leader and the reasons why Unconscious Bias has become central to advancing our diversity and inclusion program at Symantec. Stay tuned for my article in a few weeks on Unconscious Bias at Symantec and our training for all employees beginning with executives and people managers.

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(UN Global Compact/Andres Wong) Representing Symantec at the WEP’s Annual Event. The panel “Tackling Unconscious Bias” discussed the importance of addressing how our inherent stereotypes and biases contribute to inequality. What’s Next? Our ability to attract, develop, promote, retain and fully engage a wide range of talented individuals enhances innovation in our products and services and improves our competitiveness. For this reason, I am proud to endorse the 10-pt WEP’s Stakeholder Statement that outlines how business, the UN and Governments can scale up engagement to deliver for women and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As I reflect on the progress that has been made over the last 15 years, there is a lot to be proud of. After the WEP event we were all left contemplating the role we play, the impacts we can make. How can I as an individual, as a team leading diversity at Symantec, and the company as a whole continue to leverage the impact of the WEPs? How can we be evangelists for this great cause? This event was focused on gender equity and diversity to advance women in business and their communities. However, it was clear to me that many, if not all, of the actions and steps discussed during this event are global efforts designed to advance all communities, business and governments. With that being said, I was pleased to be able to represent Symantec and provide my point of view as a male advocate for gender equity and empowerment. Antoine Andrews is Symantec's Director, Global Diversity and Inclusion [1] Fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CW59) and the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) – Beijing+20

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Naciones Unidas como líder en la igualdad de género Interempresas, 12 March 2015

Schneider Electric, especialista global en gestión de la energía y automatización, ha sido reconocida por la iniciativa de las Naciones Unidas Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) como empresa líder en la lucha por la diversidad e igualdad de género. Jean-Pascal Tricoire, presidente y director general de la compañía, ha recibido uno de los cinco CEO Leadership Awards en reconocimiento por su compromiso con la implementación de políticas para potenciar el papel de las mujeres en el entorno laboral y comunitario. La iniciativa, resultado de la colaboración entre UN Women y UN Global Compact, concedió a Tricoire el premio en la categoría Business Case for Action 2015 por sus políticas de diversidad e inclusión, que conciernen, entre otras, a más de diez directoras generales de las sedes de Schneider Electric en países como Vietnam o Turquía. “Es un honor y un orgullo recibir este prestigioso reconocimiento. Durante los últimos años, Schneider Electric se ha esforzado por poner en práctica la igualdad de género y para que la diversidad y la inclusión formen parte integral de nuestra cultura empresarial. Este premio es un gran estímulo para todos los líderes, gerentes y empleados de Schneider Electric que han sido participantes activos en este viaje”, dijo Jean-Pascal Tricoire. “Hacer frente a la diversidad e igualdad de género es un desafío para el negocio y el crecimiento. Es una prioridad fundamental que repercute no sólo en el rendimiento de nuestra organización, sino también en su reputación como empleadora global. Por muchas razones que todos conocemos, ¡la diversidad y la igualdad de género ya no son una opción sino un imperativo de negocio!” Progresar en este campo ha sido una prioridad de la compañía en los últimos 5 años. Más de 300 líderes han participado en workshops para comprender mejor los factores que bloquean la igualdad de género y para construir mejores planes de diversidad, más de 400 mujeres han recibido formación específica y

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mentoring, y 12 presidentes nacionales de Schneider Electric han firmado los principios de WEP en representación de 120.000 trabajadores. Los WEPs Leadership Awards 2015 también reconocieron a Alexander Wrabetz, director general de Österreichischer Rundfunk; a Angélica Fuentes, directora General de Omnilife, fndadora de Angelíssima y fundadora y presidenta de la Fundación Angélica Fuentes; a Frank Vettese, socio y director general de Deloitte Canadá, y miembro del Comité Ejecutivo Global de Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited; y a Symon Brewis-Weston, director general de Sovereign Assurance. Los premios se entregaron después del evento anual del WEPs, que en esta ocasión contó con conferencias del secretario general de la ONU, Ban Ki-moon, y de la ex secretaria de Estado de los Estados Unidos Hillary Rodham Clinton, que instaron a empresas y gobiernos a trabajar conjuntamente para aumentar las inversiones en mujeres y niñas.

(Google Translation) United Nations as a leader in gender equality Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, has been recognized by the initiative of the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPS) as a leader in the fight for diversity and gender equality company. Jean-Pascal Tricoire, President and CEO of the company, has received one of five CEO Leadership Awards in recognition of their commitment to implementing policies to empower women in the workplace and community environment. The initiative, a collaboration between UN Women and UN Global Compact, Tricoire granted the award in the category Business Case for Action 2015 for his political diversity and inclusion, concerning, among others, over ten CEOs of the Schneider Electric headquarters in countries like Vietnam and Turkey. "I am honored and proud to receive this prestigious recognition. In recent years, Schneider Electric has worked to implement gender equality and diversity and inclusion are an integral part of our corporate culture. This award is a great encouragement for all leaders, managers and employees of Schneider Electric who have been active participants in this trip, "said Jean-Pascal Tricoire. "Dealing with diversity and gender equality is a challenge for business and growth. It is a priority that impacts not only on the performance of our organization but also on its reputation as a global employer. For many reasons we all know, diversity and gender equality are no longer an option but an imperative business! " Progress in this field has been a priority for the company in the last five years. More than 300 leaders have participated in workshops to better understand the factors blocking gender equality and to build better diversity plans, over 400 women have received specific training and mentoring, and 12 national presidents of Schneider Electric have signed the principles of WEP representing 120,000 workers. The wEPS Leadership Awards 2015 also recognized Alexander Wrabetz, CEO of ORF; Angelica Fuentes, General Director of Omnilife, fndadora of Angelíssima and founder and president of the Foundation Angelica Fuentes; Frank Vettese, partner and managing director of Deloitte Canada, and member of the

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Global Executive Committee of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited; and Symon Brewis-Weston, CEO of Sovereign Assurance. The awards were presented after the wEPS annual event, which this time included conferences Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and former Secretary of State of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton, who urged companies and governments to work together to increase investments in women and girls.

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WEPs Leadership Awards – Op-Ed https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ceo-leadership-award-pour-schneider-electric-isabelle-michel-magyar CEO Leadership Award pour Schneider Electric By Isabelle Michel-Magyar, VP Employees Engagement & Diversity, Schneider Electric LinkedIn, 17 March 2015

Je suis fière de partager avec vous que Schneider Electric a été recompensé par the CEO leadership Award pour son action en faveur de la mixité, par the United Nations Women et le Global Compact (WEP), le 10 mars 2015 au siège des Nations Unies à NYC. C'est en marge de la 59e session de la Commission sur le statut des femmes (CSW) que s'est tenu l'évènement annuel des WEP (Women's Empowerment Principles, initiative commune de l'ONU femmes et le Pacte mondial). Cette manifestation a été marquée par les discours du Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies, M.Ban Ki-Moon et par l'intervention de Mme Hillary Clinton qui a vivement incité les entreprises et les pouvoirs publics, au niveau mondial, à collaborer pour un meilleur accès des femmes à l'éducation et à une reconnaissance de la place des femmes dans l'économie. Une très belle reconnaissance pour Jean Pascal Tricoire pour son implication personnel depuis plus de 5 ans et les actions mises en place.

(Google Translation) I am proud to share with you that Schneider Electric has been rewarded with the CEO Leadership Award for his action in favor of diversity, by the United Nations Women and the Global Compact (WEP), March 10, 2015 at United Nations Headquarters in NYC. It's on the sidelines of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that was held the annual event WEP (Women's Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of UN Women and the Global Compact). The event was marked by speeches from the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon and the Hillary Clinton's intervention that urged businesses and governments, worldwide, to work for a better women's access to education and recognition of the role of women in the economy. A very nice recognition for Jean Pascal Tricoire for his personal involvement for over 5 years and the actions taken.

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Ring the Bell for Gender Equality

Global Stock Exchange Events

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Ring the Bell for Gender Equality – General Coverage http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/opening-bell-of-istanbul-stock-exchange-rings-for-gender-equality-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=79293&NewsCatID=346 Opening bell of Istanbul Stock Exchange rings for gender equality Hurriyet Daily News, 6 March 2015

Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8 and the 20th Anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Istanbul Stock Exchange (Borsa Istanbul) hosted an opening bell ceremony on March 6 in support of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. The ceremony was organized in cooperation with the U.N. Women, U.N. Global Compact and the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative. It was attended by U.N. Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Representative to TurkeyIngibjörg Gísladóttir, Sabancı Holding Chair Güler Sabancı, U.N. Global Compact Turkey Chairman Dr. Yılmaz Argüden, and Borsa Istanbul Acting CEO Hüseyin Zafer, as well as leading Turkish businesswomen including Hürriyet Gazetecilik Chairperson Vuslat Doğan Sabancı. Sare Davutoğlu, the wife of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, sent a message to be read at the event, celebrating all women on International Women’s Day and wishing for a world with no discrimination in cultural, economic and political life. The event was part of a global initiative of events under the name “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” hosted by the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Egyptian Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq, the Nigeria Stock Exchange, the Santiago Stock Exchange, the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Warsaw Stock Exchange, as well as Borsa Istanbul. Speaking in Istanbul, Gísladóttir underlined the importance of the increasing role of women in economic life. “We see more women CEOs, engineers, scientists, doctors or factory workers today, but the limitations over the full and equal participation of women into the labor force remain. Women are also affected disproportionally by abuse and discrimination in their workplaces,” she said.

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“The more women participate in the economy, the more economies will grow,” she added. James Zhan said the United Nations was working on developing studies about maximizing the benefits of international investments for making women’s lives easier and minimizing risks. Güler Sabancı said the participation of women in the labor force is “more than a human right.” “It is also a right economic decision. All studies show that organizations that give more women a voice in decision-making processes are more successful than others. In this vein, we should all heed the call by Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan for giving women more places on the boards of publicly-offered companies,” Sabancı said. She added she was glad to be a member of Sabancı Holding, the first Turkish company to sign the U.N.’s “Women Empowerment Principles” (WEPs).

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http://reut.rs/1963qKX. “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” Nasdaq Marquee (Video) Reuters Insider, 9 March 2015

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Press Releases

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Press Releases – WEPs Annual Event https://www.unglobalcompact.org/news/1721-03-11-2015 Women’s Empowerment Principles Stakeholders Call for New UN-Business Paradigm UN Global Compact and UN Women, 11 March 2015

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Business, Government and Civil Society Leaders Support Scaling-Up for Women’s Empowerment and

Sustainable Development; Actor and Advocate Geena Davis Highlights Importance of WEPs in Tackling

Unconscious Bias

(New York, 11 March 2015) – Over 300 participants from business, Government, civil society and the UN

who gathered for the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event, Unlimited Potential: Business

Partners for Gender Equality, concluded the annual meeting by making an historic call to companies and

Governments everywhere to scale up efforts to achieve gender equality, advance economic prosperity

and realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Speaking at today’s WEPs event, Geena Davis, Academy Award-Winning Actor and Founder and Chair of

the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, remarked: “Media images are an incredibly powerful

force in shaping how women are viewed and their value to society. The worlds that Hollywood is

creating are in many cases bereft of female presence.”

She continued, “If we can change what the future looks like on screen, we can change what the future

looks like in real life. We need the WEPs, we need to have conscious choices we can make and absolute

clear steps we can take to mitigate and conquer unconscious bias.”

The “Partnering for Women’s Empowerment – Equality Means Business” statement outlines how

business, the UN and Governments can scale up engagement to deliver for women and the Sustainable

Development Goals. The document expresses concern that, despite progress since the 1995 Beijing

Platform for Action (BPfA), many barriers to women’s and girls’ empowerment remain, limiting the

potential contribution of over half the population to sustainable development and economic

prosperity. It also notes that while the 1995 Beijing Declaration called on Governments for an array of

concrete actions to deliver equality for women and girls, the transformational role that business can

play to accelerate progress went unexplored at that time.

Today’s partnership call underscores that the WEPs’ expanding business community proactively seeks to

participate as a key partner in the international agenda to secure women’s rights and economic

empowerment. The document, which was endorsed by acclamation at the meeting’s close, included

calls for all stakeholders, including business, to be strategic partners for gender equality by:

Implementing commitments to end violence against women and girls;

Unleashing the benefits of women’s economic empowerment through Government actions to

end gender discrimination, invest in women’s health, education and entrepreneurship;

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Encourage and support men to ‘lead by example,’ and to take responsibility to help drive change;

and

Draw on the WEPs roadmap to inform gender equality policies and programmes in business,

Government and civil society organizations.

Participants built on the momentum of the annual event’s opening session on 10 March – which

included remarks from UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Rodham Clinton, UN Women Executive

Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and a host of others – discussing innovative solutions for putting the

WEPs into action by leveraging technology for gender equality and exploring new business models to

scale up investment in women and girls.

Supporting this proactive agenda, Joseph Keefe, Chair of the WEPs Leadership Group, and President and

CEO of Pax World Funds underscored the need for a new UN-Business paradigm. “It’s an opportunity

to activate a new UN-Business paradigm that ups everyone’s participation,” said Keefe. “It leverages

what we each do best and what we all can do together to demolish those ‘glass ceilings’ and unleash

women’s economic empowerment.”

Speakers pointed to the need to recognize the private sector as a strategic partner in achieving global

gender equality, and the WEPs as a roadmap for business engagement with the UN and

Governments. With more than 900 CEO signatories worldwide, the Women’s Empowerment Principles,

a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, provides a seven-step roadmap for

business on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community.

Companies that are implementing the 7 Principles are already working to narrow the pay gaps between

men and women, ensure adequate representation of women at all levels, promote inclusion across

company divisions, open procurement to women entrepreneurs, stop gender-based violence at the

workplace and through community-based projects.

Read 10 March Press Release Read “Partnering for Women’s Empowerment – Equality Means Business” View and download event photos

About the Women’s Empowerment Principles

The Women's Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women

and the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women

in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to

participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is

essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally

agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men,

families and communities; and propel business' operations and goals. Learn more

atwww.weprinciples.org.

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https://www.unglobalcompact.org/news/1711-03-10-2015 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton and Business Leaders Call for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Rights UN Global Compact and UN Women, 10 March 2015

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Largest Gathering of Private Sector at the UN Commission on the Status of Women Support Strategic Partnership to Deliver on Gender Equality

(New York, 10 March 2015) – At the 59th Commission on the Status of Women an unprecedented

number of business leaders, UN Member States and civil society organizations gathered for the

Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event, Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender

Equality, to promote the business case for involving women at every level and the need for all

stakeholders, including business, to be strategic partners for gender equality and sustainable

development.

“Women and men who understand that gender equality is not just morally right, but is the smart thing

to do are growing in number,” said Hillary Clinton at today’s event. “What we are doing here today is

smart for companies and countries. That is the wisdom behind the Women’s Empowerment Principles.”

“The progress of the past 20 years was not an accident. It took commitment, it took accountability, it

took unity, it took a lot of hard work.” She later added, "I’m excited where we are and particularly that

we have brought in so many businesses that understand the role that they can play…let’s keep working

until we can finally say that the unfinished business of the 21st century is done.”

The Women’s Empowerment Principles – a partnership initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN

Women – provide 7 Principles, for the private sector to empower women in the workplace, marketplace

and community. Launched in 2010 with 40 CEO signatories, WEPs support from top business leaders

around the globe now exceeds 900 CEOs and continues to grow. At the meeting, companies

implementing the WEPs reported on efforts to eliminate gender bias, increase women’s leadership,

equalize pay, open opportunities in technical fields and along the supply chain. This year’s meeting also

recognized five outstanding business leaders with the coveted WEPs CEO Leadership Award for bringing

principles into practice and leading by example.

In his opening remarks, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted: “Now it is clear that achieving gender

equality will require the concerted efforts of all actors. The Women’s Empowerment Principles provide a

roadmap for businesses to play their role in respecting and supporting women’s rights,” he said.

“Removing the barriers that keep women and girls on the margins of economic, social, cultural and

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political life must be a top priority for us all – businesses, Governments, the United Nations and civil

society.”

This WEPs meeting is especially significant as it is being held for the first time as an official side event of

the 59th Commission on the Status of Women, which is currently meeting to review global

implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and take stock of where women stand today. At the

time of the Beijing Conference twenty years ago, the business community was just beginning to

understand the importance of including women at all levels and eliminating gender discrimination.

“This is the moment for the private sector to take its place as a key partner in the achievement of

gender equality and the empowerment of women, and to make a transformative difference. If the

status quo continues, nothing changes. I call for active and energetic implementation of the Women’s

Empowerment Principles, working with Governments, the UN and all other partners. The WEPs hold

enormous potential to radically change the landscape of employment conditions and opportunities for

women. We want to see a surge in the number of businesses with WEPs in place in the next five years,

so that we can achieve full equality before 2030. This is a practical, scalable way to empower women

and at the same time boost productivity and economic results,” said UN Women Executive Director

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

Speakers included Karin Finkelston, World Bank Group; Maurice Sehnaoui, Chairman, BLC Bank

of Lebanon; and Joseph Keefe, President and Chief Executive Office of Pax World Fund and Chair of

theWEPs Leadership Group. Participants underscored the need to scale up investment in women and

girls, ensuring equal access to public services, healthcare, education, jobs, finance and justice. Citing

new and extensive research-based findings, speakers pointed to the high rate of return of investing in

women for both Governments and businesses.

Joseph Keefe said, “Gender equality is not only the greatest human rights issue of our time, but the

business community and society at large are beginning to understand that it is also the greatest

economic challenge of our time.”

Georg Kell, UN Global Compact Executive Director said, “The business case for gender equality grows

stronger and stronger—it connects our efforts across all sectors. For communities, the environment and

economies to thrive, the UN and Governments, business and civil society must take action on these

issues with the same energy and urgency made famous at Beijing in 1995,” he added.

Five CEOs Recognized for Leadership on Gender Equality

Since 2013, each WEPs Annual Event has included the announcement of the WEPs CEO

LeadershipAwards, saluting five exceptional CEOs for championing gender equality and the 7 WEPs

Principles, in particular Principle One, which urges CEOs to lead by example. Conferring the awards,

Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commission, Australian Human Rights Commission and Chair,

WEPs Leadership Group said: “What I’ve also come to understand vividly is that women’s empowerment

desperately needs action on the ground and in the halls of power—be it Parliaments, Departments of

Justice, at the UN or in the C-Suite offices around the world,” she said. “ As these five CEOs and their

companies demonstrate, the 7 Principles are a unique gender equality roadmap for tangible actions and

measurable results.”

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As advancing women in the workplace, marketplace and community requires implementing a range of

tailored strategies and actions to achieve concrete, sustainable programmes with measurable impact,

the WEPs CEO Leadership Awards are structured to reflect diverse avenues to reach those goals. The

2015 WEPs CEO Leadership Award recipients are:

Omnilife-Angelíssima, Angélica Fuentes, Chief Executive Officer, Omnilife; Founder,

Angelíssima; and Founder and Chair, Angélica Fuentes Foundation (Mexico), the first woman

CEO recognized with a WEPs CEO Leadership Benchmarking for Change Award. The company

implements a comprehensive action plan with distinct indicators and measurements that result in

a 17 per cent increase in new women hires from 2007 to 2013.

Schneider Electric, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

(France)recognized with the WEPs CEO Leadership Business Case for Action Award. Schneider

Electric’s Diversity and Inclusion policy prioritizes communicating the business case for diversity

and creating a company-wide gender balance environment that extends beyond the parent

company to more than 10 Schneider CEOs of its international branches in countries from Viet

Nam to Turkey.

Sovereign Assurance, Symon Brewis-Weston, Chief Executive Officer (New Zealand)recognized

with the WEPS CEO Leadership Community Engagement Award. The company is implementing

an innovative leadership exchange programme to change organisational culture through a

partnership with the Hunger Project, connecting Sovereign employees with women leaders in

villages in India, Bangladesh and select countries in Africa to develop leadership skills and

partnerships that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Deloitte Canada, Frank Vettese, Managing Partner and Chief Executive, Deloitte Canada; and

Member, Global Executive Committee Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Canada/

Global)recognized with the WEPs CEO Cultural Change for Empowerment Award. The Canadian

consulting firm, strengthened and recrafted diversity and inclusion programmes to create a

cultural transformation by embedding inclusion throughout company’s actions, decision-making

processes and business operations, encouraging all departments within the company to make

concerted efforts towards creating a gender inclusive environment.

Österreichischer Rundfunk, Alexander Wrabetz, Director General (Austria) recognized with the

WEPs CEO Leadership 7 Principles Award. The company’s comprehensive Equal Opportunities

Plan covers a broad spectrum of programmes and initiatives including: empowering women to

become company leaders through training and mentoring programmes; reducing barriers for

women to enter technical professions; and changing gender role perceptions with the company’s

Papa Campaign that encourages more men to take parental leave and assume child care

responsibilities and promoting gender balance sensitivity in that all broadcasting programmes

and communications.

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About the Women’s Empowerment Principles

The Women's Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women and

the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women in

the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to

participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is

essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally

agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men,

families and communities; and propel business' operations and goals. Learn more

at www.weprinciples.org.

About the 2015 WEPs Leadership Awards

The Annual Women’s Empowerment Principles Event features the WEPs Leadership Award to salute

CEO commitment and innovation to realize gender equality. The Awards highlight concrete and

innovative actions taken to advance the 7 Principles, and particularly showcases Principle One:

Leadership Promotes Gender Equality. The WEPs Leadership Awards Committee is comprised of

members of the WEPs Leadership Group, a multi-stakeholder volunteer body that provides strategic

guidance to the WEPs partnership of the UN Women and the UN Global Compact. It represents

business, academia, civil society, women’s organizations and international institutions. For complete

information about the Awards, winners and Awards Committee, please

visit www.weprinciples.org/Site/WepsLeadershipAwards.

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http://sd.iisd.org/news/csw-59-closes-with-renewed-commitments-calls-for-continued-action-on-gender-equality/ CSW 59 Closes with Renewed Commitments, Calls for Continued Action on Gender Equality IISD, 20 March 2015, CSW

20 March 2015: Governments agreed on steps to advance gender equality and women's empowerment at the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59), including on aligning the work of the Commission with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF). Governments also adopted a Political Declaration during the opening session, which outlines actions to ensure the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. CSW 59 convened from 9-20 March 2015, at UN Headquarters in New York, US. The formal session covered, among other topics: lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); financing for gender equality; and gender-disaggregated data. Over 200 side events and 400 parallel events took place throughout the session. On new work arrangements for CSW, governments agreed that aligning the work of the Commission with ECOSOC and the HLPF will strengthen its role in coordinating global implementation and policy-making on gender equality and women's empowerment, and in integrating gender equality with actions on sustainable development. Governments also agreed to create a ministerial segment to demonstrate high-level political commitment towards gender quality, women's empowerment and women's human rights, beginning in 2016. They further agreed to increase focus on the Commission's annual review theme by using case studies to illustrate lessons learned in implementing commitments. In addition, the UN Secretary-General will produce a targeted report on progress on the theme, based on national data and inputs. On the post-2015 development agenda, governments affirmed the central role of the Commission in shaping the post-2015 agenda. UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka urged governments to support a stand-alone goal on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the post-2015 development agenda. She also called for ensuring that the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD 3) is “a game-changer for financing gender equality” and for strengthening the leadership and participation of women in climate change. Stressing “there are no shortcuts to realizing gender quality, the empowerment of women and the human rights of women and girls,” Mlambo-Ngcuka called for continuing to work “systematically and relentlessly to bring about transformation in our families, societies, economic and political and public spaces” in her closing speech. She called for addressing both structural and psychological challenges and changing attitudes, beliefs,

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customary practices and laws, to create a world in which all can thrive and to end gender equality before 2030. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his progress report on the ‘Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health' a high-level event, ‘Saving Lives, Protecting Futures.' The report describes progress and lessons learned under the Global Strategy and recommends continued, accelerated action on the unfinished MDGs. At the event, panelists discussed progress in advancing the health of women and children, the role of partnerships and the importance of renewed commitments to ensure that the health of women and children are prioritized in the post-2015 development agenda. UN Women and the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) launched the ‘Women in Politics 2015 Map,' which reveals a mixed picture. Although 48 countries now have 30% or more women members in at least one parliamentary chamber, the growth of women in politics has slowed, which UN Women and IPU suggest may mean that “the impact of quotas [is] wearing off.” The organizations stressed the need to tackle gender equality and women's participation in public and political life “head-on” to ensure the success of the post-2015 agenda. At a Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event, participants stressed the role of the private sector in achieving gender equality. Ban launched the WEPs initiative in 2010 to engage businesses in advancing gender equality and sustainability. To date, over 1,000 companies have made a commitment at the highest level to implement the seven Principles. Delivering a keynote address, Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton called for keeping “ambition alive,” to address remaining challenges. UN Special Envoy for Climate Change Mary Robinson observed that gender equality is recognized within the post-2015 development agenda, but is “not as secure in the climate process,” stressing that gender equality is critical to achieving sustainable development and climate objectives. Panelists reflected on how little global progress had been made towards the MDGs on gender issues and how to better implement gender targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during a panel, 'Managing the transition from MDGs to SDGs: Lessons learned for gender equality from the MDGs and galvanizing transformative change.' Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), emphasized that implementing the agenda would require local, national and regional institutions to ensure all levels uphold obligations on gender equality. Noting the MDGs had significant gaps in focus between the goals, targets and indicators, Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management, said the SDGs should include a more inclusive and sharp set of targets that encompass the "multiplicity of gender inequality." Noelene Nabulivou, Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, Fiji, said the SDGs must reflect the structural imbalances and contextual realities of the world, and stressed that the right to development is central to women's human rights. John Hendra, UN Senior Coordinator, "Fit for Purpose" for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, explained the UN system-wide action plan on gender equality aims to address the root causes of inequality and ensure transparency. Irene Esambo, Centre d'Etudes sur la Justice et la Resolution 1325, called for states to develop action plans and peer review mechanisms on the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution on the impact of conflict on women. During a question and answer session, participants discussed: allocation of Parliament seats to women; how to

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increase women's participation in the labor force; accountability; and mainstreaming gender in national development plans. At a side event hosted by UN Women, ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it Up for Gender Equality,' participants called for “bolder action from governments and louder mobilization from citizens” on women's rights and gender equality. The event celebrated women's achievements since Beijing while also calling for immediate action to address remaining challenges. [UN Women Press Release on Closing] [UN Women Executive Director Closing Statement] [UN Press Release on Every Women, Every Child] [UN Press Release on Women in Politics Map] [IPU Press Release] [UN Press Release on WEP Event] [UN Women Press Release on Planet 50-50 Event] [Saving Lives, Protecting Futures] [IISD RS Story on CSW 59 Opening] [IISD RS Sources]

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Press Releases – Award Winners http://www.virtualpressoffice.com/publicsiteContentFileAccess?fileContentId=1927367&fromOtherPageToDisableHistory=Y&menuName=News&sId=&sInfo= Women's Empowerment Principles Recognizes Omnilife-Angelissima with 2015 CEO Leadership Award for Advancing Women's Equality 10 March 2014

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In observance of International Women's Day and the 20th anniversary of the historic UN World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, over 350 leaders from business, civil society, Government and the UN gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York City for the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event, Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender Equality.

Since 2013, each WEPs Annual Event has included the announcement of the WEPs CEO Leadership Awards, saluting five exceptional CEOs for championing gender equality and the 7 WEPs Principles, in particular Principle One, which urges CEOs to lead by example. Ms. Angélica Fuentes, Chief Executive Officer, Omnilife; Founder, Angel ssima; Founder and Chair, Angélica Fuentes Foundation was awarded one of the five coveted Awards for her demonstrated commitment to and implementation of policies that advance and empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The 2015 Benchmarking for Change Award recognized Ms. Fuentes for implementing a comprehensive action plan with distinct indicators and measurements that result in a 17 percent increase in new women hires from 2007 to 2013.

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"The advancement of women's economic empowerment is a shared responsibility. Business leaders play a significant role in transforming the way women are viewed and treated in society," said Angélica Fuentes, CEO of Omnilife and Founder and CEO of Angel ssima. "It is an honor for me to receive this award on behalf of the thousands of women who work at Omnilife and Angel ssima. They inspire me everyday in countless ways and represent the best of Latin America and beyond." Conferring the awards in the historic ECOSOC Chamber of the United Nations, Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commission, Australian Human Rights Commission and Chair, WEPs Leadership Group said: "What I've also come to understand vividly is that women's empowerment desperately needs action on the ground and in the halls of power—be it Parliaments, Departments of Justice, at the UN or in the C-Suite offices around the world. As these five CEOs and their companies demonstrate, the 7 Principles are a unique gender equality roadmap for tangible actions and measurable results." The 2015 WEPS Leadership Awards also recognized: Alexander Wrabetz, Director General, Österreichischer Rundfunk (7 Principles); Frank Vettese, Managing Partner and Chief Executive, Deloitte Canada and Member, Global Executive Committee Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Cultural Change for Empowerment); Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Electric (Business Case for Action); and Symon Brewis-Weston, Chief Executive Officer, Sovereign Assurance (Community Engagement). The two-day WEPs event, held as an official side event of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, included keynote speeches from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Rodham Clinton who urged business and Governments to work together to scale up investment in women and girls. The Women's Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business – a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact – is currently supported by nearly 900 CEOs and outlines seven steps for business to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community.

About the Women's Empowerment PrinciplesThe Women's Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and propel business' operations and goals. Learn more at www.weprinciples.org.

About the 2015 WEPs Leadership AwardsThe 6th Annual Women's Empowerment Principles meeting inaugurates the WEPs Leadership Award to salute CEO commitment and innovation to realize gender equality. Since 2013, each WEPs Annual Event includes the announcement of the WEPs CEO Leadership Awards saluting five exceptional CEOs for championing gender equality and the 7 WEPs, in particular Principle One, which urges CEOs to lead by example. The WEPs Leadership Awards Committee is comprised of members of the WEPs Leadership Group, a multi-stakeholder volunteer body that provides strategic guidance to the WEPs partnership of the UN Women and the UN Global Compact. It represents business, academia, civil society, women's organizations and international institutions. For complete information about the Awards, winners and Awards Committee, please visit http://weprinciples.org/Site/WepsLeadershipAwards.

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http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=196322 Women’s Empowerment Principles Recognizes Schneider Electric with 2015 CEO Leadership Award for Advancing Women’s Equality Rueil-Malmaison (France) – WEBWIRE 11 March 2015 In observance of International Women’s Day and the 20th anniversary of the historic UN World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, over 350 leaders from business, civil society, Government and the UN gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York City for the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) event, Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender Equality. Since 2013, each WEPs Annual Event has included the announcement of the WEPs CEO Leadership Awards, saluting five exceptional CEOs for championing gender equality and the 7 WEPs Principles, in particular Principle One, which urges CEOs to lead by example. Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Schneider Electric, was awarded one of the five Awards for his demonstrated commitment to and implementation of policies that advance and empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The 2015 Business Case for Action Award recognized Schneider Electric’s for its Diversity and Inclusion policy, which prioritizes communicating the business case for diversity and creating a company-wide gender balance environment that extends beyond the parent company to more than 10 Schneider Electric CEOs of its international branches in countries from Viet Nam to Turkey. “We are proud and honored by this prestigious recognition. Over the past several years, Schneider Electric has been striving to implement gender equality and to make diversity and inclusion an integral part of our company culture. This award is a great encouragement for all Schneider Electric leaders, managers, employees who have been active supporters in this journey,” said Jean-Pascal Tricoire. “Addressing gender diversity and equality is a business and growth challenge. It is a key priority which impacts not only the performance of our organization, but also its reputation as world-class employer. For many reasons, that we know all, gender diversity and equality is no more an option but a business imperative!” At Schneider Electric, progressing on diversity and gender balance has been a priority over the 5 past years. More than 300 leaders have dedicated half day to better understand the main blocking factors and to build gender diversity plans, more than 400 talented women have been mentored and coached, and 12 Schneider Electric Country Presidents, representing 120,000 employees have signed the WEP and have an active gender plan to make Schneider Electric a great place to work for women. Conferring the awards in the historic ECOSOC Chamber of the United Nations, Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commission, Australian Human Rights Commission and Chair, WEPs Leadership Group said: “What I’ve also come to understand vividly is that women’s empowerment desperately needs action on the ground and in the halls of power—be it Parliaments, Departments of Justice, at the UN or in the C-Suite offices around the world. As these five CEOs and their companies demonstrate, the 7 Principles are a unique gender equality roadmap for tangible actions and measurable results.” The 2015 WEPS Leadership Awards also recognized: Alexander Wrabetz, Director General, Österreichischer Rundfunk (7 Principles); Angélica Fuentes, Chief Executive Officer, Omnilife, Founder, Angelíssima; and Founder and Chair, Angélica Fuentes Foundation (Benchmarking for Change); Frank

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Vettese, Managing Partner and Chief Executive, Deloitte Canada and Member, Global Executive Committee Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Cultural Change for Empowerment); and Symon Brewis-Weston, Chief Executive Officer, Sovereign Assurance (Community Engagement). The two-day WEPs event, held as an official side event of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, included keynote speeches from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Rodham Clinton who urged business and Governments to work together to scale up investment in women and girls. The Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business – a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact – is currently supported by nearly 900 CEOs and outlines seven steps for business to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. About Schneider Electric As a global specialist in energy management and automation with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in Non-residential & Residential Buildings, Industries & Machines Manufacturers, Utilities & Infrastructure and Data Centers & Networks. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green, the Group’s 170,000 employees achieved revenues of 25 billion euros in 2014, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations make the most of their energy. www.schneider-electric.com About the Women’s Empowerment Principles The Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and propel business’ operations and goals. Learn more at www.weprinciples.org. About the 2014 WEPs Leadership Awards The 6th Annual Women’s Empowerment Principles meeting inaugurates the WEPs Leadership Award to salute CEO commitment and innovation to realize gender equality. Since 2013, each WEPs Annual Event includes the announcement of the WEPs CEO Leadership Awards saluting five exceptional CEOs for championing gender equality and the 7 WEPs, in particular Principle One, which urges CEOs to lead by example. The WEPs Leadership Awards Committee is comprised of members of the WEPs Leadership Group, a multi-stakeholder volunteer body that provides strategic guidance to the WEPs partnership of the UN Women and the UN Global Compact. It represents business, academia, civil society, women’s organizations and international institutions

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http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20150311_OTS0007/orf-generaldirektor-wrabetz-mit-internationalem-uno-preis-in-new-york-ausgezeichnet ORF-Generaldirektor Wrabetz mit internationalem UNO-Preis in New York ausgezeichnet 10 March 2015 Erhielt den „Women’s Empowerment Principles CEO Leadership Award“ von UN Women und UN Global Compact für sein Engagement für Gleichstellung von Frauen Wien (OTS) - Hohe internationale Auszeichnung für ORF-Generaldirektor Dr. Alexander Wrabetz: Jedes Jahr verleihen die UNO-Organisationen "UN Women" und "UN Global Compact" beim "Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs)"-Event die WEPs CEO Leadership Awards, die das Bekenntnis und die Innovationskraft von führenden Managern in Gleichstellungsfragen auszeichnen. Als einer unter fünf CEOs weltweit erhielt ORF-Generaldirektor Dr. Alexander Wrabetz den "Women’s Empowerment Principles CEO Leadership Award" 2015 für seine Aktivitäten zur Förderung der Gleichstellung im ORF wie dem ORF-Gleichstellungsplan. Dieser erfülle jedes der 7 Prinzipien der Vereinten Nationen, um Geschlechter-Gleichstellung zu fördern. Im Rahmen einer feierlichen Gala nahm Wrabetz gestern, Dienstag, den 10. März 2015, die Auszeichnung um 15.30 Uhr Ortszeit (20.30 Uhr MEZ) bei der UNO in New York entgegen. ORF-Generaldirektor Dr. Alexander Wrabetz: "Es ist für mich ein große Ehre, diesen sehr wichtigen Preis der UNO zu erhalten. Und er ist eine große Motivation, den eingeschlagenen Weg weiterzugehen. Der ORF setzt viel daran, die Rolle von Frauen im Unternehmen zu stärken und Gender-Gerechtigkeit zu verwirklichen. Der ORF-Gleichstellungsplan war dabei eine von vielen Maßnahmen, um größere Teilhabe von Frauen in allen Bereichen zu ermöglichen. Niemals zuvor wurden so viele Frauen mit Führungspositionen betraut. Ich bin stolz auf diese UN-Auszeichnung, die ich mit allen teilen will, die mitgeholfen haben, unsere Maßnahmen zur Gleichstellung im ORF zu verankern!" Anlässlich der Verleihung im historischen ECOSOC-Saal der Vereinten Nationen sagte Elizabeth Broderick, Vorsitzende der WEPs Leadership Group und australische Kommissarin für Gleichstellungsfragen: "Was ich eindeutig verstanden habe, ist, dass die Stärkung der Frauen dringend vor Ort und in den Hallen der Macht erfolgen muss - wie in den Parlamenten, Justizministerien, in der UN oder in den Managementebenen weltweit. Wie diese fünf CEOs und ihre Unternehmen gezeigt haben, handelt es sich bei den 7 Grundsätzen um einen einzigartigen Geschlechtergleichstellungsfahrplan für konkrete Maßnahmen und messbare Ergebnisse." In der Begründung für die Auszeichnung heißt es unter anderem, sie werde für den "umfassenden Gleichstellungsplan" des ORF vergeben, der "ein breites Spektrum an Programmen und Initiativen beinhalte" wie etwa "Führungskräfte-Trainings und Mentoring-Programme für Frauen", die "Reduktion von Barrieren für Frauen in technischen Berufen" oder Initiativen wie den "Papa-Monat" zur Förderung der Väterkarenz beinhalte. Die WEPs-Tagung fand im Rahmen der 59. Sitzung der UN-Kommission für die Lage der Frauen statt, in deren Rahmen UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-moon und Hillary Clinton in ihren Statements Wirtschaft und Politik aufforderten, ihr Engagement für Frauen und Mädchen zu verstärken.

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ORF General Wrabetz awarded international UN Price in New York Received the "Women's Empowerment Principles CEO Leadership Award" of UN Women and the UN Global Compact for its commitment to equality between women Vienna (OTS) - Prestigious international award for ORF General Director Dr. Alexander Wrabetz: Each year, give the UN organizations "UN Women" and "UN Global Compact" at the "Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPS)" - Event wEPS the CEO Leadership Awards that characterize the commitment and innovation from leading executives in gender issues. As one among five CEOs worldwide received ORF General Director Dr. Alexander Wrabetz the "Women's Empowerment Principles CEO Leadership Award" in 2015 for his activities to promote gender equality in the ORF ORF as the equality plan. This fulfills each of the 7 principles of the United Nations to promote gender equality. At a festive gala Wrabetz took yesterday, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 the award at 15.30 local time clock (20.30 clock CET) at the UN in New York against. ORF General Director Dr. Alexander Wrabetz: "It is for me a great honor to receive this very prestigious award of the UN And he is a great motivation to continue on the path ORF is keen on the role of women in the company.. to strengthen and achieve gender equality. The ORF equality plan was about one of many measures to allow greater participation of women in all areas. Never before have so many women were entrusted with leadership positions. I am proud of this UN award I want to share with all who have helped to anchor our equality policies in the ORF! " On the occasion of the historic United Nations ECOSOC Hall said Elizabeth Broderick, President of the wEPS Leadership Group and Australian Commissioner for Gender Equality: "What I have clearly understood is that the empowerment of women done urgently on site and in the halls of power must -. As these five CEOs and their companies have shown the world how in parliaments, ministries of justice, in the UN or in the levels of management, it is at the 7 principles to a unique gender equality timetable for concrete actions and measurable results. " The motivation for the award states, inter alia, they shall be forgiven for the 'comprehensive Equality Plan "of the ORF that" a wide range of programs and initiatives including holding "such as" management training and mentoring programs for women, "the" reduction of barriers to women in technical professions "and initiatives such as the" father's month "consider including the promotion of paternity leave. The WEPS meeting took place at the UN Commission of the 59th meeting held on the situation of women in the framework of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Clinton in her statement calling on business and politics, their commitment to women and girls reinforce.

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https://www.sovereign.co.nz/About-us/media/Pages/Sovereign-CEO-receives-UN-Award-for-leadership.aspx Sovereign CEO receives UN Award for leadership 10 March 2015

Symon Brewis-Weston receiving his award from Elizabeth Broderick, Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner. Credit: UN Global Compact/Andres Wong. Sovereign CEO Symon Brewis-Weston has become one of only five CEOs around the world to be recognised in 2015 by the United Nations (UN) for his progressive approach to workplace diversity and community engagement. Brewis-Weston, who is only the second New Zealand CEO ever chosen for the honour, received the 2015Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP) CEO Leadership Award at the UN headquarters in New York City on March 10, where Hilary Clinton provided the keynote address. “While it’s humbling to have won this award, the truth is that I never set out to purposely create a diverse workforce. What I always want to achieve is a team that represents our customers, our community and has the skills to deliver amazing work,” says Sovereign CEO Symon Brewis-Weston. The WEP is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact aimed at empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors. The awards recognise global business leaders who have demonstrated leadership on gender equality through the WEP. “This year’s competition included extremely strong nominations from a substantial number of companies implementing strategic and innovative strategies to realise gender equality. The competitive nominations made the assessment process very challenging. The nominations came from all regions of the world, representing diverse sectors and business sizes,” says WEP Special Advisor Joan Libby Hawk. Brewis-Weston joined Sovereign in March 2013 with a clear purpose to “shake up the insurance industry in New Zealand” by growing the market, making a more meaningful difference to the lives of customers and achieving greater impact in the community. Over the past two years, he has addressed diversity and gender imbalance, which was reflective of the male dominated financial services industry, by initiating a programme of change that has included re-

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setting organisational structures, communicating a compelling vision: ‘Being the difference in life’s moments of truth’, introducing innovative leadership training and championing flexible working hours. This resulted in a reduction of the gender pay gap, which is now sitting at 4% (compared to the national average of 9.9% ), and an increase in female representation on the executive leadership team, which grew from 18% in 2010 to 45% in 2014. “The reality is that there are some societal groups that are generally under-represented, especially within the financial services sector. For businesses that are struggling to achieve the right levels, quotas are a good option. It takes a lot of work and forward planning to put the right succession plans in place and unless you have to do something, you don’t do it,” says Brewis-Weston. “Change is simply not happening fast enough. When the majority of New Zealand’s university graduates are women but only 14% hold directorships in the country’s top 100 companies there is something very wrong.” Sovereign Chairperson Gavin Walker says Brewis-Weston proves that harnessing a diverse workforce is good for business. “As our diversity has increased we’ve enjoyed the benefits of new skills, competencies and experience. We’ve got fresh perspectives that increase our ability to innovate and I’ve seen us become more adaptable and ready for change as a result. The financial services industry is traditional and slow to change. We are showing what is possible by making our workplace more reflective of the real world in terms of age, gender, experience and culture.” In his nomination, Brewis-Weston was also recognised for the importance he places on leadership training and personal development of staff, including an innovative New Zealand-first collaboration with The Hunger Project. Together with The Hunger Project, Sovereign is developing a pioneering cultural leadership programme that will drive transformational leadership. Over three years, 10% of Sovereign’s staff will travel to India where they will learn from women who have empowered themselves in the face of adversity to create positive change for their communities. “The learnings we gain from these women will help us become leaders with true authenticity and inspire others. It is about showing what is possible from leading courageously,” says Brewis-Weston. “In India, where female leaders are a minority, the local councils introduced quotas and the communities have been transformed. It’s inspiring to see how well it’s worked.” Brewis-Weston is also an advocate of flexible working hours, placing more value on performance, collaboration and teamwork rather than “who stays the latest”. He also established a committee to lead diversity and inclusion initiatives focused on gender balance, cultural diversity, generational diversity, flexible working and support for the LGBTI community. However, Sovereign is not the first organisation where Brewis-Weston has worked hard to ensure gender balance. He was Executive General Manager at Sovereign’s parent company Commonwealth

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Bank of Australia (CBA) where he established Women In Focus. Now in its fifth year, and with more than 10,000 active members, the network empowers business women to grow their organisations and achieve professional and personal goals. “Throughout my career, CBA has provided me with a platform to do things differently and try new things - not every organisation will allow you to do that.” As part of his trip to the UN, Brewis-Weston also took part in a milestone discussion about the essential role business can play in realising gender equality along with leaders from business, government and the UN.

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Press Releases – Stock Exchanges http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=953&Sitemap_x0020_Taxonomy=UNCTAD%20Home Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality UNCTAD, 11 March 2015

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Partner stock exchanges from the UNCTAD co-organized Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative ring their opening or closing bells in support of gender equality and to highlight the pivotal role of the private sector in empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community. To mark the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing and International Women's Day, the Bombay Stock Exchange, Borsa Istanbul, Egyptian Exchange, Nasdaq, Nigerian Stock Exchange, OMX Stockholm (part of Nasdaq group) and Warsaw Stock Exchange, came together in a global effort to raise awareness about the importance of gender equality to business.

Speaking at the opening bell of Borsa Istanbul on 6 March,James Zhan, Director of UNCTAD's Investment and Enterprise Division said, "Investors around the world are realizing that not only is furthering gender equality the right thing to do, but it is also the economically smart thing to do. Enabling women's potential is central to ensuring sustainable and inclusive development, as well as boosting economic growth." UNCTAD's 2014 report Investment by TNCs and Genderhighlighted that Women's participation in the labour market is still limited in many countries. Globally, the gender gap in employment is as high as 25 percent. Women today represent almost 70

percent of the world's poor, earning only 10 percent of the world's income. Borsa Istanbul Acting CEO Hüseyin Zafer said in his speech, "While the government offers the required infrastructure for economic growth and development through education policies, labor laws and other similar steps, companies should, through their human resources policies, take the necessary steps to reinforce gender equality in Turkey. Taking an active role in efforts related to education, sustainability and social responsibility efforts, Borsa Istanbul will continue to support every project that brings forth equality of opportunity for women, in cooperation with its stakeholders. We will continue to contribute to reinforce the awareness on the side of companies and investors".

UNCTAD's James Zhan (left) with officials from UN Women, Borsa Istanbul and Turkish industry at the 6 March opening bell at Borsa Istanbul.

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UN Women Designated Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Turkey representative Ingibjörg Gísladóttir said in her address at the Borsa Istanbul event, "In recent years many doors have opened up for women in the economic sphere. Today, women are CEOs of companies, scientists, engineers, doctors, factory workers. However, despite the progress, obstacles to women's full and equal participation in the economy persist. Women remain disproportionately affected by discrimination and exploitation in the workplace. Gender discrimination means women often end up in insecure, low-wage jobs, and constitute a small minority of those in senior positions." She added, "when more women work, economies grow." The series of stock exchange events were co-organized by UN Women, UN Global Compact and the UNCTAD co-organizedSustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative. Spanning seven countries and four continents, the global series was kicked off by the Egyptian Exchange on 2 March and culminated with an opening bell event at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in New York on 9 March. Speaking in Cairo on 2 March, Dr. Mohammed Omran, Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange said, "the private sector plays an essential and pivotal role in supporting women's economic empowerment all around the world. You could act as a leading entity to change the wage gap, ensure equality in the workplace and to support women as leaders in the business sector". The Executive Director, Business Development, Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Haruna Jalo-Waziri, remarked that, "achieving gender equality is important for workplaces not only because it is fair and the right thing to do, it is also vitally important to the bottom line of a business and to the productivity of our nation". The global bell ringing events are taking place as part of a broader UN effort to take stock of where women stand in the world today, raise awareness on the importance of gender quality and enhance global action. The events brought together business leaders, investors, Government and UN officials, and other key stakeholders.

Nasdaq's Times Square video screen in New York City promotes the SSE initiative and the Gender Equality event

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The events highlighted the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) - a joint initiative of UN Women and UN Global Compact. UN Women will be holding a series of events focused on gender equality from 6-20 March. Cathy Engelbert, CEO-elect of Deloitte LLP rang the opening bell at NASDAQ in New York, remarking, "It is an honor and privilege to ring the opening bell at the NASDAQ for International Women's Day. Not only did Deloitte contribute to the development of the seven Women's Empowerment Principles, we've integrated them into our business as part of our commitment to promote gender equality worldwide." While in New York, Fiona Reynold, Managing Director of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), noted, "Gender equality is an issue that impacts everyone, from diversity in board rooms to equal opportunities for education. We have come far, but we have so much further to go. PRI welcomes the leadership taken by the exchanges, business representatives and UN officials who brought together these global bell ringing events and calls on all capital market actors to take their own steps toward gender equality". "From Bombay to New York, bells are ringing for gender equality," said Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact. "As an organizer of both the WEPs and the SSE initiative, the UN Global Compact is encouraged to see exchanges, companies, investors, Governments and the UN coming together to take on this critical issue of gender equality. If we are to ensure women's full and effective participation, and equal opportunity at all levels of political, economic and public life, we need the full commitment and collaboration of all stakeholders." About the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative The Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative is a peer-to-peer learning platform for exploring how exchanges, in collaboration with investors, regulators, and companies, can enhance corporate transparency - and ultimately performance - on ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) issues and encourage responsible investment for sustainable development. The SSE initiative is co-convened by four organisations: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) United Nations Global Compact UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) The SSE initiative invites exchanges globally to become a Partner Stock Exchange within the SSE by making a voluntary public commitment to promote improved ESG disclosure and performance among listed companies. In addition, the SSE welcomes participation from securities regulators, investors, companies and other key stakeholders with the initiative.

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https://www.unglobalcompact.org/news/1691-03-09-2015 Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality UN Global Compact, 9 March 2015

(New York, 9 March 2015) – Stock exchanges from around the world joined UN Women, UN Global

Compact and the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative to ring their opening or closing bells in

support of gender equality and to highlight the pivotal role of the private sector in empowering women

in the workplace, marketplace and community.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing and International

Women’s Day, the Bombay Stock Exchange; Borsa Istanbul; Egyptian Exchange; NASDAQ; Nigerian Stock

Exchange; OMX Stockholm (part of NASDAQ group); and Warsaw Stock Exchange; came together in a

global effort to raise awareness about the importance of gender equality to business and recognize how

the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) – a joint initiative of UN Women and UN Global Compact

– can support action on advancing gender equality. In addition to the aforementioned exchanges and

organizations, each event was organized locally with the support of UN Women Country Offices

and Global Compact Local Networks.

The series of global events culminated on 9 March with a bell ringing at NASDAQ in New York, bringing

together WEPs stakeholders in advance of their annual meeting. Cathy Engelbert, CEO-elect of Deloitte

LLP rang the opening bell, remarking, “It is an honor and privilege to ring the opening bell at NASDAQ for

International Women’s Day. Not only did Deloitte contribute to the development of the seven Women’s

Empowerment Principles, we’ve integrated them into our business as part of our commitment to

promote gender equality worldwide.” UN Women Deputy Director Lakshmi Puri, UN Global Compact

Executive Director Georg Kell, and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Managing Director Fiona

Reynolds were also on hand to help mark the occasion along with dozens of business leaders, investors,

and Government and UN representatives.

“From Bombay to New York, bells are ringing for gender equality,” said Georg Kell, Executive Director,

UN Global Compact. “As an organizer of both the WEPs and the SSE initiative, the UN Global Compact is

encouraged to see exchanges, companies, investors, Governments and the UN coming together to take

on this critical issue of gender equality. If we are to ensure women's full and effective participation, and

equal opportunity at all levels of political, economic and public life, we need the full commitment and

collaboration of all stakeholders.”

Fiona Reynolds, Managing Director of PRI noted: “Gender equality is an issue that impacts everyone,

from diversity in board rooms to equal opportunities for education. We have come far, but we have so

much further to go,” she said. “PRI welcomes the leadership taken by the exchanges, business

representatives and UN officials who brought together these global bell ringing events and calls on all

capital market actors to take their own steps toward gender equality".

On 10-11 March, WEPs stakeholders will build on this global momentum by bringing together leaders

from business, Government, the UN and civil society for the 2015 WEPs Event, Unlimited Potential:

Business Partners for Gender Equality. Participants will reflect on the Beijing Declaration and Platform

for Action – the 1995 comprehensive global framework for women’s empowerment – and chart a path

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toward a sustainable, equitable and inclusive future. This year’s meeting is being held for the first time

as an official side event of the 59th Commission on the Status of Women.

About the Women’s Empowerment Principles

The Women's Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women

and the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women

in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to

participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is

essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally

agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men,

families and communities; and propel business' operations and goals. Learn more

atwww.weprinciples.org.

About the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative

The Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative is a peer-to-peer learning platform for exploring how

exchanges, in collaboration with investors, regulators, and companies, can enhance corporate

transparency – and ultimately performance – on ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance)

issues and encourage sustainable investment. The SSE initiative is co-convened by four organisations –

the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Environment

Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), United Nations Global Compact and UN-supported Principles

for Responsible Investment (PRI). The SSE initiative invites exchanges globally to become a Partner Stock

Exchange within the SSE by making a voluntary public commitment to promote improved ESG

transparency and performance among listed companies. Currently, the SSE welcomes 18 exchanges

globally as Partner Exchanges. In addition, the SSE welcomes participation from securities regulators,

investors, companies and other key stakeholders to engage with the initiative. To learn more,

visithttp://www.sseinitiative.org

About UN Women

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A

global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting

their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for

achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies,

programmes and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal

participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: increasing women’s leadership and

participation; ending violence against women; engaging women in all aspects of peace and security

processes; enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and making gender equality central to

national development planning and budgeting. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN

system’s work in advancing gender equality. http://www.unwomen.org

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Stock Exchanges Around the World Ring the Bell for Gender Equality

Sustainable Stock Exchange, 9 March 2015

(New York, 9 March 2015) – Stock exchanges from around the world joinedUN Women, UN Global Compact and theSustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative to ring their opening or closing bells in support of gender equality and to highlight the pivotal role of the private sector in empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Women in Beijing and International Women’s Day, the Bombay Stock Exchange, Borsa Istanbul, Egyptian Exchange, Nasdaq, Nigerian Stock Exchange, OMX Stockholm (part of Nasdaq group) and Warsaw Stock Exchange, came together in a global effort to raise awareness about the importance of gender equality to business and recognize how the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) – a joint initiative of UN Women and UN Global Compact – can support action on advancing gender equality. In addition to the aforementioned exchanges and organizations, each event was organized locally with the support of UN Women Country Offices and Global Compact Local Networks. The series of global events began with the Egyptian Exchange on 2 March and culminated on 9 March with a bell ringing at NASDAQ in New York. The global bell ringing events are taking place as part of a broader effort to take stock of where women stand in the world today, raise awareness on the importance of gender quality and enhance global action. The events brought together business leaders, investors, Government and UN officials, and other key stakeholders. In parallel, NYSE also hosted two bell ceremonies to bring attention to this important issue, with one hosted by Citi and one with Women in ETFs.

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On 10-11 March, WEPs stakeholders will build on the momentum of these global events by bringing together leaders from business, Government, the UN and civil society for the 2015 WEPs Event, Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender Equality. Participants will reflect on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the 1995 comprehensive global framework for women’s empowerment- and chart a path toward to a sustainable, equal, and inclusive future. Similarly, UN Women will be holding a series of events focused on gender equality from 6-20 March. From the political to economic spheres, progress has been made, but not enough. Investing in women and girls, and enabling their full economic participation is important for business and society to build strong economies and more stable and just societies, improve the quality of life for families and communities, and achieving sustainable development.

Quotes from Around the World Dr. Mohammed Omran, Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange stated that the Egyptian Exchange has a clear interest in empowering women to play leading roles in the Egyptian capital market system, adding “…the private sector plays an essential and pivotal role in supporting women’s economic empowerment all around the world. You could act as a leading entity to change the wage gap, ensure equality in the workplace and to support women as leaders in the business sector”. “GPW (Warsaw Stock Exchange) sees its role in the creation of standards of conduct. In the document ‘Best Practices of GPW Listed Companies’ we included recommendations for public companies and their shareholders concerned with ensuring balanced participation of women in the companies’ authorities. We also treat the issue of equality between women and men in business sector as part of responsible business. Companies that pay attention to these issues, among others, are likely to be included in the RESPECT Index – our prestigious index of responsible companies” says Paweł Tamborski, President of the Management Board of GPW. Borsa İstanbul Acting CEO Hüseyin Zafer said in his speech, “While the government offers the required infrastructure for economic growth and development through education policies, labor laws and other similar steps, companies should, through their human resources policies, take the necessary steps to reinforce gender equality in Turkey. Taking an active role in efforts related to education, sustainability and social responsibility efforts, Borsa İstanbul will continue to support every project that brings forth equality of opportunity for women, in cooperation with its stakeholders. We will continue to contribute to reinforce the awareness on the side of companies and investors”. In his opening remarks, the Executive Director, Business Development, Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Haruna Jalo-Waziri, remarked that, “achieving gender equality is important for workplaces not only because it is fair and the right thing to do, it is also vitally important to the bottom line of a business and to the productivity of our nation”. He noted that “the private sector plays an essential and pivotal role in supporting women’s economic empowerment all around the world. At The Nigerian Stock Exchange we are making it happen, as we have women filling 32% of the workforce and we are still working at improving that figure”. Sounding the Closing Gong of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the UN Women, Country Programme Director, Dr. Grace Ongile said, “As we mark this year’s International Women’s Day, I wish to remind us that it’s time to stimulate national and international government agencies into re-framing, reviewing, where applicable, policies that will realise gender equity and equality. We hope this Closing Gong

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ceremony for gender equality will be the starting point of a fast tracked journey to equality in rights and opportunity for Nigerian women.” Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange said, “BSE is pleased to associate with the UN Women initiative in this regard. Gender equality is a very important issue especially for a developing country like India. Working in this area to provide dignity and skills to women and recognizing successful role models is important to improve gender equality. BSE is honored to be associated with the ringing of the bell at various exchanges on International Women’s Day.” Cathy Engelbert, CEO-elect of Deloitte LLP rang the opening bell at NASDAQ in New York, remarking, “It is an honor and privilege to ring the opening bell at the NASDAQ for International Women’s Day. Not only did Deloitte contribute to the development of the seven Women’s Empowerment Principles, we’ve integrated them into our business as part of our commitment to promote gender equality worldwide.” “Investors around the world are realizing that not only is furthering gender equality the right thing to do, but it is also the economically smart thing to do,” saidJames Zhan, the Director of Investment and Enterprise at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). “Enabling women’s potential is central to ensuring sustainable and inclusive development, as well as boosting economic growth.” While in New York, Fiona Reynold, Managing Director of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), noted, “Gender equality is an issue that impacts everyone, from diversity in board rooms to equal opportunities for education. We have come far, but we have so much further to go. PRI welcomes the leadership taken by the exchanges, business representatives and UN officials who brought together these global bell ringing events and calls on all capital market actors to take their own steps toward gender equality”. “From Bombay to New York, bells are ringing for gender equality,” said Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact. “As an organizer of both the WEPs and the SSE initiative, the UN Global Compact is encouraged to see exchanges, companies, investors, Governments and the UN coming together to take on this critical issue of gender equality. If we are to ensure women’s full and effective participation, and equal opportunity at all levels of political, economic and public life, we need the full commitment and collaboration of all stakeholders.” About the Women’s Empowerment Principles The Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and propel business’ operations and goals. Learn more at www.weprinciples.org. About UN Women In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step

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in accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. The main roles of UN Women are to support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms; to help Member States to implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable technical and financial support to those countries that request it, and to forge effective partnerships with civil society; and to lead and coordinate the UN system’s work on gender equality as well as promote accountability, including through regular monitoring of system-wide progress. Learn more at www.unwomen.org.

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http://www.nse.com.ng/mediacenter/news_and_events/Pages/NSE-Advocates-for-Gender-Equality.aspx NSE Commemorates International Women’s Day The Nigerian Stock Exchange, 6 March 2015 The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in partnership with United Nations Women, United Nations Global Compact, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative and Access Bank Plc., hosted a Closing Gong Ceremony on Friday, March 6, 2015, in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and International Women’s Day. This is in line with the Exchange’s commitment to promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

In his opening remarks, the Executive Director, Business Development, NSE, Mr. Haruna Jalo-Waziri, commended the organizers and partners for investing their time and resources in advancing gender equality and celebrating women. According to Jalo-Waziri, “achieving gender equality is important for workplaces not only because it is fair and the right thing to do, it is also vitally important to the bottom line of a business and to the productivity of our nation”. He noted that “private sector plays an essential and pivotal role in supporting women’s economic empowerment all around the world. At The Nigerian Stock Exchange we are making it happen, as we have women filling 32% of the workforce and we are still working at improving that figure”. Sounding the Closing Gong of the Exchange, the UN Women Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Dr. Grace Ongile said, “As we mark this year’s International Women’s Day, I wish to remind us that it’s time to stimulate national and international government agencies into re-framing, reviewing, where

applicable, policies that will realise gender equity and equality. We hope this Closing Gong ceremony for gender equality will be the starting point of a fast tracked journey to equality in rights and opportunity

for Nigerian women.” Similar events are being held with the SSE partner Exchanges across the globe. On the 10th and 11th of March, 2015, Women Empowerment Principles stakeholders will build on the momentum of these global events by bringing together leaders from business, Government, the UN and civil society for the 2015 WEPs Event, which is titled Unlimited Potential: Business Partners for Gender Equality. Participants will reflect on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the 1995 comprehensive

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global framework for women’s empowerment- and chart a path toward to a sustainable, equal, and inclusive future. Earlier in the day, Mrs. 'Yemisi Ayeni, a member of the National Council of The NSE and Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Closed Pension Fund Administration Ltd, made a presentation on the topic, "Building a Successful Career as a Woman". This session was attended by women from The NSE and the stockbroking community. See more pictures are the picture gallery. About the Women’s Empowerment Principles The Women's Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. The Principles outline seven steps for business on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The Principles highlight that empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to build strong economies; establish more stable and just societies; achieve internationally agreed goals for development, sustainability, and human rights; improve quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and propel business' operations and goals. Learn more at www.weprinciples.org.

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http://www.mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/in-collaboration-with-the-un-global-compact-and-the-egyptian-exchange-un-women/ In Collaboration With The UN Global Compact And Egypian Exchange; UN Women Launches the Global Campaign”Ring The Bell” In Egypt Egyptian Stock Exchange, 2 March 2015 The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in collaboration with the UN Global Compact and the Egyptian Exchange, launched the global campaign “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” in sustainable development and businesses by ringing the opening bell of the Egypt Exchange. The event takes place in the lead up to International Women’s Day and the 20th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, in order to increase awareness about the importance of gender equality in sustainable development and businesses. The event will take place in 6 other countries (India, Nigeria, Turkey, Poland, Sweden and New York) in collaboration with UN Women and UN Global Compact. The event comes in the context of the celebrations associated with the International Women’s Day. The opening session was attended by H.E. Ms. GhadaWaly, Minister of Social Solidarity, Ambassador Mervat Tallawy, President of the National Council for Women; Mr. Mohamed Naciri, UN Women Regional Directora.i.; Dr.Mohammed Omran, Chairman of the Egyptian Exchange, and a number of the leading Egyptian companies inapplying the principles of gender equality. The event aimedat raising awareness on the importance of promoting gender equality in the private sector. In addition, it encourages business leaders, from around the world, to sign and commit to the Women Empowerment Principles; and also, shed the light on the leading companies in this field,which have already taken concrete steps to empower women in the work place and community.Upto this moment, 854 business leaders, from around the world, have committed to the Women Empowerment Principles. In Egypt, only 6 companies have committed to Women Empowerment Principles represented in the event by the Chairmen of Pharmaceutical Holding Companies and Sekem Group Company. “We have a growing interest to support and disseminate the principles and standards of social responsibility among Egyptian corporations, whereas studies have indicated the role of social responsibility in the corporate performance and the effect on improving the corporate’s financial position. In addition to the benefits that will impact the whole society as a result of the existence of private companies that believe in the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)”, highlighted Omran. Omran also added that social responsibility is not limited to charity work, as some might think, but it extends to include interior work systems, improving the way of dealing with the environment, respecting workers’ rights, fighting against corruption and abiding by the rules of governance; in addition to, achieving gender justice. All of the latter comes under the umbrella of sustainability. In recognition of this critical role, the Egyptian Exchange was at the forefront to encourage Egyptian

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companies to expand the application of social responsibility standards and principles, stressing that the coming period will witness a number of events and achievements. Focusing on the role of women in the financial non‐banking services sector, Omran stated in his statement that the Egyptian Exchange has a clear interest in empowering women to play leading roles in the Egyptian capital market system, where Egyptian women account for 7% of the leadership positions in the Egyptian Exchange in addition to the 25% of the labor force in the Egyptian Exchange and on the level of brokerage firms, more than 20% of the brokers are the women. “Our determination to continue to support the presence of Egyptian women and give them the opportunity to gain the status they deserve as an essential active partner the Egyptian society” added Omran. “I am honored to say that Egypt is the first country and up till now the first Arab country participating in the initiative. You are putting the principle of gender equality on the top of the agenda; the private sector plays an essential and pivotal role in supporting women’s economic empowerment all around the world. You could act as a leading entity to change the wage gap, and ensure equality in the workplace and to support women as a leader in the business sector”. The Egyptian Exchange acts as an active partner in the UN initiative for sustainable stock exchanges that have been launched in 2012, where the Egyptian Exchange was one of five stock exchanges who founded the initiative (and these are: Egyptian Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Market, and the Bovespa Stock Exchange in Brazil, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa, and Istanbul Stock Exchange in Turkey. Lately, the Egyptian Exchange was chosen as a model of reference for communication of stock markets with the acting parties in the market. The United Nations Commission appreciated the efforts of the Egyptian Exchange in the field of sustainability and effective communication with the parties of the market.

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Press Releases – Other Announcements

http://www.consumertrack.com/uncategorized/consumertrack-promotes-two-women-to-executive-team ConsumerTrack Promotes Two Women to Executive Team 27 March 2015 LOS ANGELES, March 27, 2015 — ConsumerTrack Inc. announced today its partnership with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and celebrated the promotions of two of its female leaders to the executive team. Dedicated to empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and community, ConsumerTrack signed a statement of support for UN Women’s mission, pledging to uphold its Women’s Empowerment Principles, which are listed on its site: • Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality • Treat all women and men fairly at work — respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination • Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers • Promote education, training and professional development for women • Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women • Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy • Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality ConsumerTrack, a leader in performance-based digital marketing, recently promoted two female leaders to its executive team. Caitlin Barber, formerly the director of product and operations, was promoted to chief operating officer, and Beta Karimzadeh, formerly director of media, was promoted to executive vice president of media and strategy. “Caitlin and Beta have made significant contributions to ConsumerTrack, each demonstrating a commitment to improving systems and processes, and advancing programs that will allow us to meet the needs of our clients and partners as quickly as possible,” said CEO Brett Rossmann. “They have each built strong, capable teams and have helped ConsumerTrack navigate an increasingly complex environment as we expand geographically and into new verticals. Their leadership and vision will help ensure ConsumerTrack is able to achieve its goals.” About ConsumerTrack Founded in 2004, ConsumerTrack Inc., a privately held company, is a leader in digital marketing and customer acquisition for companies like American Express, Equifax, GE Capital Bank and hundreds of additional financial institutions. The company offers a wide range of products and services that deliver excellence in quality and service from a world-class team. Follow ConsumerTrack online at www.consumertrack.com and through social media.

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http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150318/NEWS/150319055/101151/BIZ Pax Ellevate promotes Women's Empowerment Principles Seacoastonline.com, 18 March 2015 PORTSMOUTH – Pax Ellevate Management LLC recently announced it sent letters to companies in the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund that have not yet signed onto the Women’s Empowerment Principles, encouraging them to do so. The principles are a joint initiative of the United Nations Global Compact and UN Women, and constitute a set of practical guidelines for companies on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. The letters were sent to coincide with the Women’s Empowerment Principles 2015 annual eventMarch 10-11 in New York. Joe Keefe, CEO of Pax World Management LLC and Pax Ellevate Management LLC, is co-chair of the Women’s Empowerment Principles Leadership Group. Sallie Krawcheck, chair of Pax Ellevate, delivered keynote remarks at the event alongside former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Research shows that when women are well represented in company leadership, firms tend to perform better across a variety of metrics including return on equity, return on sales and return on invested capital,” Keefe said. “The companies in the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund have already demonstrated their commitment to advancing women in the workplace, and many have already endorsed the principles. We believe that if more companies sign onto and take steps to implement the principles, the cause of gender equality will be immeasurably advanced and the timetable for achieving genuine progress will be greatly accelerated.” “The companies in the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund represent some of the most recognizable brands in the world,” added Krawcheck. “If these companies stand up and become signatories to the principles, they will set a strong example for the rest of the business community to follow in recognizing the incredible economic potential that can be unleashed by empowering women around the world.” The Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund is the first mutual fund in the United States that focuses on investing in companies that are global leaders in advancing women. The fund invests in equity securities of companies around the world that demonstrate a commitment to advancing women through gender diversity on their boards, in executive management and through other policies and programs, including their endorsement of the principles.

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http://markets.financialcontent.com/mi.adn/news/read/29455946/Miller/Howard_Investments_Endorses_the_Women?s_Empowerment_Principles Miller/Howard Investments Endorses the Women’s Empowerment Principles 12 March 2015 Lowell G. Miller, founder and CIO of Miller/Howard Investments Inc., has signed the CEO Statement for the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP) on March 6, 2015, joining more than 900 signatories globally. The CEO Statement, drafted by the United Nations Global Compact and UN Women, states that the “full participation of women in our enterprises and in the larger community makes sound business sense now and in the future. A broad concept of sustainability and corporate responsibility that embraces women’s empowerment as a key goal will benefit us all.” All signatories have committed to “encourage business leaders to join us and use the Principles as guidance for actions that we can all take in the workplace, marketplace and community to empower women and benefit our companies and societies.” With this support, Miller/Howard proudly expands its engagements on issues of human rights. It recognizes that business is improved when the best candidates are drawn from the most inclusive pools, when competition is not limited by bias, and when sustainability underscores management of both environmental as well as human resources. Miller/Howard has been engaging companies on environmental, social, and governance issues for more than two decades. For more information, please contact Luan Steinhilber, Director of Shareholder Advocacy, or visit www.mhinvest.com/esg. For more information on the Principles and a full list of signatories to the CEO Statement, go to www.WEPrinciples.org. About Miller/Howard Investments Inc. Miller/Howard Investments is an independent, research-driven investment boutique focused on generating sustainable income by investing in equities. The firm evaluates companies across all sectors for financial strength and their ability to consistently generate and raise dividends. Common themes of Miller/Howard strategies are: higher-than-average yield, higher-than-average financial strength of issuer, and expected growth of dividends. The firm is 100% employee owned. Miller/Howard has focused on income-producing equities since 1991. As of December 31, 2014, it had more than $8.7 billion of assets under management in several core dividends-focused strategies.

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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/daily-hurriyet-signs-uns-women-empowering-principles.aspx?pageID=238&nID=79313&NewsCatID=341 Daily Hürriyet signs UN’s women empowering principles Daily Hurriyet, 7 March 2015

A total of 42 companies from Turkey, including daily Hürriyet, have signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), founded in collaboration with U.N. Women and U.N. Global Compact, on March 6, ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8. Daily Hürriyet, known for its projects on preventing violence against women and increasing gender equality in the country, has become the first media organ in Turkey which promises to keep the WEPs. The WEPs are a set of principles for businesses offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. Daily Hürriyet has also signed the U.N. Global Compact and become a participant of the WEPs platform. At a March 6 ceremony hosted by the Istanbul Stock Exchange (Borsa Istanbul), 18 companies signed these principles, bringing the total number of companies who have signed the WEPs up to 42. By signing the WEPs, daily Hürriyet promised to keep the following seven principles: Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality; treat all women and men fairly at work; respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination; ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers; promote education, training and professional development for women; implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women; promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy; and measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality.

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Social Media Snapshot (25 February – 25 March) The following search query was used to analyze social media mentions of the WEPs event between 25 February and 25 March. Please note these statistics only include mentions that reference either @globalcompact or @UN_Women. ("Women's Empowerment Principles" OR "Womens Empowerment Principles" OR "WEPs" OR "@WEPrinciples" OR "#WEPs" OR "#EqualityMeansBusiness" OR “#Beijing20”) AND ("UN Women" OR "UNIFEM" OR "@UN_Women" OR "@globalcompact" OR "Global Compact" OR "UN Global Compact" OR "United Nations Global Compact" OR "UNGC" OR "United Nations")

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