Webinars

Empowering Women in Water - Perspectives from the Asia

18/03/2024

This webinar was organised by the Sustainability in the Water Sector Specialist Group.

While the water challenges of both the present and the future call for us to bring the best talent, knowledge, capacities, and effort we can attract and retain from both women and men, there is currently inadequate investment in developing the skills and talents of women, recruiting them into the water sector, providing a wide range of opportunities for them to participate and use their skills, and supporting their efforts. As a result, women are numerically under-represented in areas ranging from skilled trades workers to management, as well as subject to inadequate support in optimising their contributions and this particularly in Asia region.