Resources

#WeLearn: Enhance Your Skills to Pivot Your Career

On 12 November 2020, the WE EMPOWER - G7 Programme hosted "Enhance Your Skills to Pivot Your Career"  learning session. This event is a collaboration between WE EMPOWER - G7 Programme and WomenWill Programme, a Grow with Google initiative.

Creating Gender Equality in Fashion

Read this case study to learn more about GANNI, a fashion brand based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Gender equality and women’s empowerment is vital to the company’s internal brand values, as well as to its external marketing practices.

Fostering Women Entrepreneurs into Community Leaders

POLA Inc. President Miki Oikawa, first female president to head a major cosmetic company in Japan, shares with us how the WEPs support advancing their long-standing commitment and actions to promote gender equality. 

Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment As First Step Towards Diversity and Inclusion

Akiyoshi Hiraoka, CEO and Representative Director, Nihon Unisys, Ltd., firmly believes that diversity brings innovation, and sees the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment as a foundation for diversity and inclusion. 

Harnessing Women's Talent in the Electricity Sector

Read this case study on Iberdrola, a multinational electric utility company based in Spain. The company set out to increase its number of women working as electricians and technicians. In August 2019, they created a School for Electricians uniquely for women.

Designing a World with Gender Equality

This Leaders in Action piece follows the journey of OLGA Agency partners, Jessica Templeton Smith and Lucy Pickford. OLGA Agency is a London-based marketing agency that works with companies in the arts, education and culture sector. 

WEPs Introduction for Companies in the Asia-Pacific

This introductory brochure for companies in the Asia-Pacific provides information about the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and UN Women's services to help private companies implement them, including through training and learning programs, technical assistance and innovative new initiatives