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PRIORITYMEASURE55
“Strengthen the participation of women in high-level anddecision-making positions in companies and support the training of men andwomen during hours
that are compatiblewith their family life, and encourage businesswomen to adopt leadership roles.”
Possible lines of action
1. Encourage women to take part in business training courses; 2. Establish conditions that will facilitate women’s participation in
business training, including measures to reconcile working and home life for men and women; 3. Encourage business policies that
promotewomen to senior positions; 4. Identify and eliminate legal and customarybarriers towomen’s participation in senior positions.
Targets
Growing presence ofwomen in senior positions in companies.
Tentative indicators
Percentage ofwomen in senior positions in companies.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
Santo Domingo Consensus, agreement 41: “
Promote gender equity and equality in strategic and high-level managerial and decision-
making positions in firms and public and private institutions, including in the information and communications technologies sector
”;
agreement 60: “
Prioritize and intensify initiatives aimed at women’s economic empowerment at the community level throughmeans such
as business education andbusiness incubators to improve their situation and thus reduce their vulnerability to violence.
”
SDG target 4.3: “By 2030 ensure equal access for all women andmen to affordable quality technical, vocational and tertiary education,
including university”; target 5.5: “Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of
decision-making in political, economic andpublic life.”
Comments
PMs 54, 55 and 56 constitute a group of measures intended to eliminate gender disparities in the labour market.While PM 54 considers
asymmetries relating primarily to access to decent employment, job security, wages and decision-making, and PM 56 calls for the
prevention and punishment of sexual and other forms of harassment in the workplace, PM 55 focuses more specifically on encouraging
businesswomen to exert leadership and to achieve high-level positions in companies.
