UN Global Compact

Professor Amivi Kafui Tete-Benissan (left) teaches cell biology and biochemistry at the University of Lomé, Togo. She's also a vocal activist who encourages girls to pursue science as a career path.
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Without ‘transformative shifts,’ women will wait two centuries for gender equality

27 February 2019
Women

“I think it's almost a joke that it will take the world so long to create women empowerment, particularly as we know that there’s an economic upside in empowering women in the range of $28 trillion.”

Lise Kingo, executive director of the United Nations Global Compact.
United Nations Global Compact

Slow gender equality progress ‘almost a joke’: UN business chief

27 February 2019
Interviews

The slow progress of achieving gender equality in the workplace is “almost a joke,” Lise Kingo, head of the UN Global Compact, told UN News.

When Conor Lennon from UN News met Lise Kingo, he started by asking her to outline the biggest challenge in improving gender equality.

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