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Generation Equality

Teresa Wankin
Secretary General
CANTO

020 is a pivotal year for gender equality This year, we are celebrating Caribbean women who
internationally. The beginning of a new decade, share short video content on topics that will help promote
as well as the 25th anniversary of the UN the empowerment of women in the workplace. These
2Women’s new multigenerational campaign topics include Finding your Voice in Meetings; Finding
“Generation Equality”, aligning with this year’s Women’s FLOW with Work and Life; Asking for What you
day theme “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Want; Being a Part of the Team and Bringing your
Women’s Rights”. Designed to bring together peoples Whole Self to Work and comes from women, who like
of every gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion and country us work every day while balancing lives and families;
to drive actions that will create the gender-equal world and have taken time to give invaluable advice. Let’s
we all deserve, this theme resonates well with everyone use this advice as we press forward for change and share
working towards the 2030 Sustainable Development it amongst our peers in support of women everywhere.
goals.
While this region can boast that we have female Prime
I am proud to be working in an environment that brings Ministers, ministers and parliamentary secretaries and
technology and connectivity to all and provide a powerful c-level executives at the forefront of large corporations,
platform for gender inclusivity. At CANTO we believe there is still a long way to go on female inclusion and
that there is great value in the empowerment of women gender equality at all levels of society. Gender equality
and girls in every sphere of society. Fifty percent of our is closely linked to social and economic development
Board and eighty percent of the Secretariat staff are and collaboration between all stakeholders is necessary
females. Our newly installed Women in ICT Working if we are to build a regional ecosystem that supports
Committee champions our initiatives to further promote female inclusion in the new digital economy.
and encourage gender inclusivity and focuses on the
advancement of women in the ICT sector in CANTO As we celebrate our global achievements and move
Member Countries and promoting awareness of the closer to gender parity, let us also make a pact to unite,
ICT Sector opportunities to girls in order to bridge the reflect and recharge the initiatives for change by going
gender gap, and increase the number of girls choosing beyond our own individual dreams to pick one woman
careers in ICT. we know and help her move closer to her dreams because
helping one woman at a time will take us all a step closer
to our collective goal.

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