BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Singapore BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+08 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261012T083845Z - 72461@fwa DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20180308T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20180308T140000 CREATED:20261012T083845Z DESCRIPTION:FWA &\; National Australia Bank Celebrate IWD: PRESS FOR PR OGRESS - TAKING ACTION TOGETHER - 8 March 2018\, 12-2pm\nPlease note t hat lunch will be provided. FWA thanks National Australia Bank for their k ind sponsorship of the venue and lunch. THIS IS A MEMBER AND INVITE ONLY E VENT. To join membership\, please follow this link https://www.fwasg.org/M embership/IndividualMember.aspx “Started by the Suffragettes in the earl y 1900’s\, the first International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1911. International Women’s Day belongs to all communities everywhere – eve ryone can play a purposeful part in pressing for gender parity. Collective action and shared responsibility for driving gender parity is what makes international Women’s Day successful.” https://www.internatonalwomensd ay.com Embracing collective action\, FWA IWD 2018 seeks to PRESS FOR PROGR ESS – TAKING ACTION TOGETHER In 2017\, the FWA IWD event successfully fe atured the ground-breaking pledge by our Male Champions to target 30% of w omen in senior leadership roles in Singapore by 2020. Once again\, FWA con siders the IWD theme for the year and makes it relevant to our members – female and male members in the financial services industry. Women compris e one half of the world’s population and talent pool\, yet gender parity is over 200 years away (World Economic Forum 2017 Global Gender Gap Repor t). Some of us feel that the pace of progress\, with more men and women ta king action together\, should be faster. There is no better time than now to press forward and progress gender parity and inclusion. Gender Parity c uts across the economic\, education\, health and political arenas. Empiric al studies have shown that improving global gender parity could increase g lobal GDP. In the financial services industry\, press for progress continu es for gender pay equality\, fair promotion of women and women representat ion in senior leadership roles. What further progress are we pressing for? How can we engage more men and women to care? What can we do [...] DTSTAMP:20261012T083845Z LOCATION:Financial Women's Association (Singapore)\, 111 North Bridge Road\ ,\, #21-01 Peninsula Plaza\,\, Singapore 179098\, Singapore SUMMARY:FWA & National Australia Bank Celebrate IWD: PRESS FOR PROGRESS - T AKING ACTION TOGETHER - 8 March 2018\, 12-2pm END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR