Heritage Bank Plc at the weekend stated that making female empowerment central to organisation’s business strategies is not only critical to growth, but to building a sustainable and flourishing global economy.
Ifie Sekibo, the MD/CEO of Heritage Bank, while speaking on the International Women’s Day 2019 campaign theme, “Balance-for Better,” said the commemoration is a call to action for driving gender balance globally, stressed that presently gender bias remains a significant obstacle to global progress, and it is particularly acute in the workplace.
He said that organisations with greater gender equality are more innovative, generous, and profitable.
The MD who cited the Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which target gender equality because women and girls represent half of the world’s population and, therefore, half of its potential, noted that women still have fewer economic opportunities than men, less access to education, and less political representation.
According to him, though there has been considerable progress in developing the capabilities of women, their participation in economic and political decision-making remains very limited.
