The World Conference on Women
At the World Conference on Women in Warsaw, women from Germany are also committed to greater participation.
“Women – building an inclusive economy in the digital age”: this is the central theme of the World Conference on Women in Warsaw. More than 1,000 successful women from over 70 countries will come together from 9 to 11 June 2016 to promote the participation of women in the global economy, establish robust networks and exchange creative strategies. One of these is the PhD in political science Alexandra Borchardt, now managing editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She is concerned that women in Germany could miss out on the digital transformation of society and participation in it. “The heaven, of which women have always wanted half, is just now being redistributed”, she says. The proportion of female computer science students and trainees in the IT industry, in spite of all the efforts on the part of schools and universities to increase their number with funding in mathematical, technical and scientific subjects, is still significantly lower than that of men. At the World Conference on Women Borchardt will speak on the future of media in the digital world. In October 2015 she published a polemic entitled: “The Internet between Dictatorship and Anarchy: Ten Theses on Democratizing the Digital World”.
From training to payment
Katrin Adt, the daughter of a diplomat, spent her childhood in eight countries. Today she is the lawyer responsible at Daimler AG for the selection and training of the up-and-coming manager elite. Of Daimler managers worldwide, only fourteen per cent are women. The declared goal of the company is that their number be increased to at least 20 per cent by 2020. In Warsaw Adt will address the topic of “Growing the Silver Economy with Technology”. She will be accompanied by Ursula Schwarzenbart, likewise of Daimler AG, who will speak on the inequality of payment between men and women, the “Gender Pay Gap”. Sandra Gott-Karlbauer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Business Unit Urban Transport at Siemens AG, is in charge of the worldwide production and distribution of underground trains, trams, railway carriages, electric buses and vehicles for driverless operation. She will explain in Warsaw how more women can be induced to enter technical professions.
The World Conference on Women aims above all highlight opportunities for women in the digital economy, secure market access for women to the next generation of entrepreneurs, accelerate the advancement of women in management positions in the economy, establish a family-friendly work culture for men and women, and create a sustainable future for the economy, in which limited resources are protected.
World Conference on Women, 9 to 11 June 2016 in Warsaw
