APEC Ministers Advance Women’s Economic Empowerment
APEC ministers demonstrated their shared commitment to advancing gender equality by welcoming the APEC Gender Equality Structural Reform Voluntary Principles and Recommendations to Advance Women’s Economic Empowerment.
The principles and recommendations work as a tool to support women’s economic empowerment by APEC member economies in the following areas:
- Women’s education, training and skills development
- Women’s access to capital, assets and markets
- Women’s labor force participation
- Women’s economic participation and leadership