As part of the Earth4All national engagement strategy for Austria, the Austrian Chapter of The Club of Rome is organising a series of workshops on the Earth4All turnarounds. On 17 May, The empowerment turnaround: change through new (gender) power relations? will explore the empowerment turnaround with three keynote speeches and a panel discussion on the implementation of the empowerment policy levers in the Austrian context.
The empowerment turnaround proposes three key levers:
- All governments ensure the rights of women and girls to education.
- All companies and public bodies achieve gender parity in leadership positions.
- All governments guarantee universal social protection and establish adequate universal pension systems.
The focus will be on more stable societies, gender equality in leadership positions and a new conceptualization of education as well as diverse social power relations that we need to look at and whose dynamics need to be understood and, if necessary, changed.
Language & Programme
The event will be held in German, with two keynote speeches in English:
Earth4All and Gender Equity: The place of Women Empowerment in Building Better, Strong and Resilient Societies: Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Executive Director of Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) & Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya
Empowerment for a Sustainable Future: Bridging Education and Equality, Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Lefkofridi, University Professor of Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality at the Department of Political Science, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
The English keynotes will be followed by a keynote in German by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brand, Professor of International Politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and a panel discussion on the implementation of the empowerment policy levers in the Austrian context.
Online participation
Participation is free. There will be a livestream of the event: registration is requested for both in-person and online attendance.
