IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: April 13, 2016
DAY: Wednesday
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
LOCATION: George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium
Overview
Women comprise a little more than half the world’s population, yet significant gender gaps in labor markets constrain their contribution to measured economy activity and growth. Earlier IMF research pointed to the importance of increasing female participation as part of the economic recipe to boost growth prospects in a wide range of countries, including many advanced economies. Most recent research by the IMF suggests that more women in senior corporate positions may also improve firms’ financial performance. Despite significant progress in recent decades, progress toward gender equality is hampered by gaps in participation in the labor force, earnings, and the limited number of women in senior positions. This panel of experts will examine the role that women’s role in the labor market plays in overall growth and stability. But the debate doesn’t end in the corporate sector. New research also shows that public policy may have just as much a role to play as personal choice in women’s decision to work. How does tax policy play an unintended role in keeping women out of the labor force?Join the conversation via #IMFGender
Getting Down to Business Women, Work and the Global Economy
Getting Down to Business Women, Work and the Global Economy
Panelists
Moderator: Katty Kay
Panelist: Winnie Byanyima
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director at Oxfam International, is a world-renowned women’s rights leader and a global authority on economic inequality.
Winnie continues to support social justice movements around the world, and has spearheaded Oxfam’s global research and advocacy on economic inequality and gender inequality. She has acted as Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum, participated in the IMF Fiscal Forum and served on the United Nations (UN) High-Level Panels on Access to Medicines and on Women’s Economic Empowerment. She is also a global ambassador for the Open Government Partnership and was recently appointed to serve on ILO’S Global Commission
Panelist: David Lipton
Panelist: Sahar Nasr
Sahar Nasr is Egypt’s Minister of International Cooperation. Nasr a Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo and a former lead economist in the World Bank’s Finance and Private Sector Development department, has over 60 publications in the fields of financial reform, the labor market, women empowerment, and economic legislation.
Panelist: Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development and he has been co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He has been engaged in policy dialogue and projects with governments and civil society around the world, both with the World Bank and as a consultant while at Harvard, including some time as adviser to Google.org. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. After finishing at MIT he joined the World Bank, where he held a number of positions. In addition he has authored over 50 papers published in refereed journals.
(As of April 2016)