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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Shumaila Iftikhar

Needs of women must be recognised to advance global gender equality, international forum told

Stereotypes and a lack of financial support are holding women back from reaching an equal footing with men in the workplace, a global discussion on International Women’s Day was told.

Female participation in academia, media, politics and business in the digital age is changing but the needs of women need to be recognised to enable gender equality, the panellists urged in the Innovation, Change and Education debate.

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