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More than 80 delegates from member countries and nine invitee countries and various international and regional organisations are attending the three-day meeting
India has put forth an ambitious agenda for the G20 Development Working Group (DWG) which aims to bring inclusive and sustainable development, a senior Central government official told delegates from various countries on the first day of the meet.
The first day of the 3rd Development Working Group (DWG) meeting began with an engaging and insightful side event on women-led development, one of India’s key G20 priority areas. The event was organized by the G20 Secretariat in partnership with the
There is a need to design institutions and systems that allow and welcome feminine leadership, she said.Sisterhood and brotherhood alliances with the feminist men are critical to that development, Espinosa added.Participating in the discussion, Baratang Miya, founder and CEO of GirlHype -Women Who Code from South Africa, said women as users of large amount of digital content need to pioneer the algorithms that generate this content and completely understand the foundations upon which these are built.She said tech literacy is a significant barrier to womens participation in job markets today.
The former president of the United Nations' General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, participated in the discussions. She said, even today, women constantly strive to prove their places in the world and conform to the 'imposter syndrome.'