Gender Parity: Awareness, Analysis, Action | Saadia Zahidi | TEDxLausanneWomen

What are gender gaps? Why do they matter? And how can we fix the systems that create them? Saadia Zahidi shares the story of the growing global momentum for gender parity and challenges us to shift from the paradigm of awareness to the paradigm of action.
Saadia Zahidi leads the World Economic Forum’s work on Gender Parity. Her work aims to benchmark gender gaps, collect best practices and bring together senior business and government leaders to devise and implement change. She also leads the Forum’s practice on Employment. Saadia was selected as one of BBC's 100 Women in 2013 and 2014 and is currently working on her book "Womenomics in the Muslim World", a deeply personal project exploring the transformative power of 800 million women.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@yasmins9648]

Across the board, Women today who are equal contributors in their country should be treated fairly and paid equally as their male coworkers. We must stop gender bias everywhere. We all have a duty to raise the importance of this issue and create policies for change and equality.

[@the1stgoldenchild]

very intresting points

[@g.narayanareddy1630]

Pay gap is not about people paid for same work. It is measured as all man salary average vs woman salary average. So more man doing high salary jobs and more women do low salary jobs. It is not wage gap.

[@editedusa3382]

I want to tell the fact that, if men income is transfering totally in this gap then.....why womam want to be a labour or do want to work if they can live like a queen by not doing work.....poor labour men and ther poor labour wife equally work hard in india and pakistan no parity or gap of any kind but woman still want to live life without labouring work and do easy not heavy work....like food ,beauty parlour type

[@mayagoya1329]

This is definitely translated by the number of rapes that happen in the aforementioned countries. Furthermore, Pakistan has the highest number of documented honour killings per capita of any country in the world. How great to born a woman in Pakistan.