The following list of actions has been derived from the early findings of the project Gender Equality: Transforming Women’s Global Leadership. During the symposium on 27 March 2026, you will have the chance to discuss this draft manifesto. As part of the symposium, we will create a link for your to rank the items from highest to lowest priority and make suggestions for additions or exclusions. The results of this co-creation exercise will be fed back as part of the final plenary session.
· Education on gender equality, parenting and fatherhood at secondary school for all pupils
· Access to free childcare
· Access to free day-care for relatives who are elderly or otherwise in need of care
· Affirmative action/setting statutory quotas for numbers of women (e.g. on political party candidate shortlists, on executive boards of corporations and senior leadership teams in universities).
· Creation of an investment platform to enable greater access to finance for women entrepreneurs, increased post-doctoral fellowship funding, and to tackle financial barriers related to entry into politics
· Creation of a global platform to provide mentoring and sponsorship of early career women and those transitioning into leadership roles
· Tighter and more effective regulation of social media nationally and internationally
· Support for sectors to install gender sensitive working practices (regular audits, review of workload allocation, tackling gender segregation in role)
· More effective mechanisms to call out and report discriminatory behaviours and actions
· Leadership development across each sector, which includes focus on core attributes (e.g. resilience), key skills (e.g. negotiating and influencing), and values (e.g. diversity through recognising and challenging unconscious bias, sexism and misogyny, ageism and more).