The UAE’s private sector is again taking greater strides to boost gender parity, with 18 local and multinational companies pledging to increase the representation of women in leadership positions to 30 percent by 2025, state news agency WAM reported.
The Gulf country has upped its efforts to close the gender gap, and though Covid-19 has exacerbated gender inequality, globally, the UAE was in the world’s five most improved countries for making progress on gender parity last year, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021.
The UAE companies who signed the pledge will increase the number of women in leadership “through policy, programme and initiative developments that are aligned with UAE government direction,” WAM reported.
