Women’s economic role vital to national development.
Increasing women’s participation in economic
activities has been vital to improving the lives of their families and entire
societies as well as their countries, the US Ambassador at Large for Global
Women’s Issues Catherine M. Russell says.
In an interview with The Jakarta Post on the
sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women and Economy
Forum in Nusa Dua last weekend, Russell said that promoting gender equality and
advancing the status of all women and girls around the world, including those
living in the Asia-Pacific region, remained the biggest challenges at the
present time.
“It is important to enable women to participate
in economic activity. It is one of the ways for any country in the world to
accelerate...
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