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12/26/2017 gulftoday.ae | Gender balance priority: Mohammed
and Chairwoman of the FCSA, received the ‘UAE Gender Balance Seal’. Prime Minister of
the UAE and
Ruler of Dubai
The honouring of FCSA was based on three major criteria; decision-making, education and experience, and His Highness
a supportive environment for working mothers. Evaluation in this category was based on statistics from the Sheikh
Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, FAHR, and polls conducted by a neutral party among Mohammed Bin
more than 64,000 employees in the federal government. Rashid Al
Maktoum has
stated that the
Evaluation in the third category of Best Initiative for Supporting Gender Balance was based on best sacrifices and
practices, projects, and policies and legislations established to support gender balance. accomplishmen..

Developing
The UAE Securities and Commodities Authority, SCA, was honoured the Best Initiative for Supporting sciences
Gender Balance for its ‘Women in Boards’ initiative, and Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy priority:
and Chairman of the SCA Board of Directors, received the trophy. The authority aims to increase female
representation on the boards of public shareholding companies to 20 percent by 2020. Mohammed

Sheikha Manal Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Gender Balance Council and
wife of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential
Affairs, expressed her gratitude to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid for honouring the winners of the
inaugural Gender Balance Index. She said that this recognition from the leadership reflects the importance
of gender balance in the national agenda, and encourages all private and governmental entities to strive for
further progress in this field.

Sheikha Manal thanked the UAE Government for incorporating gender balance into the country’s national
indicators, which measure the performance of all organisations. This will support the UAE’s national goals
as well as the UAE Gender Balance Council’s vision to establish the country as a role model for gender
balance legislation in the region.

WAM

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