By Christine Svarer, Director, HERproject, BSR

The products and services that keep our societies advancing depend on interconnected economies and global supply chains. Often, if you follow these chains to their very end, you will find women in factories or on farms: Approximately 200 million women work in global supply chains. From Bangladesh and China to Kenya and Ethiopia, women are at the heart of the production of many of the clothes we wear and much of the food we consume.

By Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR; Christine Svarer, Director, HERproject, BSR

What Can Business Do for Women and What Can Women Do for Business:

A Perspective from and for the Base of the Pyramid to Enhance Economic Opportunities for Women and Accelerate the Realization of the SDGs.

1st Webinar: Tuesday 30^th Jan 2018, 4:00-5:00 pm (GMT+3)
2nd Webinar: Tuesday 6^th Feb 2018, 4:00-5:00 pm (GMT+3)
3rd Webinar: Tuesday 13^th Feb 2018, 4:00-5:00 pm (GMT+3)

The “#MeToo” social media campaign is extraordinary and enlightening. Clearly, we all need to take seriously that so many women are posting and tweeting those two words to say that they, too, have been harassed or assaulted.

There have been many heartfelt examinations of the personal impact of harassment and worse these past weeks. Those consequences are devastating, but they are not isolated.