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– 42% representation of women in the aviation sector in the country.
The Emirates Council for Gender Balance participates in the Global Summit for Gender Equality in Aviation in Madrid.
Huda Al Hashemi: The Emirates Council for Gender Balance, chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed, launched several initiatives that reduced the gender gap in all sectors of the country and enhanced its global competitiveness.
: The UAE has devoted its efforts to enhance its successes in the civil aviation industry by exchanging knowledge with ICAO and focusing on issues related to gender.
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DUBAI, 12th July, 2020 (WAM) — The Emirates Gender Balance Council participated in the Global Summit for Gender Equality in Aviation 2023, organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization “ICAO” in Madrid from 5 to 7 July 2023. In this session, it focused on enabling factors. To achieve gender equality and empower women in the field of aviation.
This participation, which took place in coordination with the representative office of the UAE at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is an embodiment of the directives of the wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairwoman of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance, to strengthen the council’s global partnerships to serve the file of gender balance in the country and the participation of the countries of the world in the UAE’s pioneering experience in gender balance.
During its participation in the summit, headed by Huda Al Hashimi, Assistant Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Strategy Affairs, member of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance, and with the participation of Ayat Al Salmi, Senior Project Manager in the Council, the Council delegation reviewed the country’s efforts to establish gender balance in all sectors and its regional and global achievements in This field is a translation of the vision of the wise leadership in support of women, in order to enhance their role as a major partner in comprehensive development, and an affirmation of the UAE’s commitment to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
On the sidelines of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance participation in the summit, Her Excellency Huda Al Hashemi discussed with Salvatore Schaccitano, Chairman of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), areas of joint cooperation in a way that contributes to promoting gender balance at the regional and global levels.
She stressed the importance of the Global Accelerators Ambassadors Program, which was launched last May at the organization’s headquarters in Montreal, with the aim of empowering the organization’s leaders with the accelerators’ tools and methodology to support ICAO’s transformational vision, as one of the accelerators’ batch deals with enhancing access to gender balance targets in the aviation organization. international civil.
The summit, which was held with the participation of governments, international organizations, experts, academics and stakeholders from the private sector, represented a good opportunity for dialogue on the current situation and prospects for expanding partnerships and strengthening measures and steps by airlines and authorities to achieve accelerated progress towards gender equality and enhance women’s participation in the industry in line with The fifth goal of the sustainable development goals related to the empowerment of all women and girls around the world, especially in light of the current large gap regarding the status of workers in the field of aviation by gender, according to a global survey conducted by the “ICAO”, which confirmed at the same time that there is a positive point despite this The challenge is to increase the overall participation of women around the world in the positions of pilots, air traffic controllers and maintenance technicians from 4.5% in 2016 to 4.9% in 2021.
The summit stressed the importance of gender equality to create a more inclusive industry that provides opportunities to absorb new perspectives and ideas and innovative and comprehensive solutions that work for everyone, making the aviation sector more competitive and resilient in facing future economic challenges. The summit sought to explore the enabling factors and solutions to achieve this goal, calling on stakeholders to work together to overcome the challenges faced by women and girls in order to change the composition of the workforce in this sector.
Her Excellency Huda Al Hashemi participated as a keynote speaker in the session “Harnessing the power of gender-responsive policies and financing”, which focused on the importance of integrating a gender equality perspective into aviation policies, planning processes, strategies and frameworks, and discussed how to create an environment favorable to women in the aviation sector and the ways in which workplace culture can be changed through gender-responsive policies such as flexible working arrangements, promotion of work-life balance, implementation of inclusive and transparent human resources policies, with sufficient human and financial resources allocated to the implementation of these institutional arrangements in order to Successfully addressing the gender gap.
In addition to His Excellency Huda Al-Hashimi, Bobby Khoza, Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of South Africa, Priscilla Manis, Acting Head of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Gemma Martin del Burgo, President of the Ellas Vuelan Alto Association, which works on highlighting female talent in the aviation industry, Katja Berman, Senior Advisor, UN Women, and moderated by Dr. Leslie Groves-Williams, Senior Advisor on Gender and Leadership.
During her intervention in the session, the Assistant Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Strategy Affairs, a member of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance, confirmed that the UAE is dedicating its efforts to enhance its successes in the aviation industry through its close relationship with the International Civil Aviation Organization, and said that part of these efforts is to ensure Sharing knowledge about the Government Accelerators methodology, and focusing on issues related to gender.
She also shed light on the Emirates Council for Gender Balance, which was established in 2015 as a federal entity responsible for the gender balance file in the UAE, with the aim of reducing the gender gap in all sectors at the government and private levels, and promoting gender balance in leadership positions and decision-making centers, and promoting The UAE’s global competitiveness and making it a role model in this field.
She touched on the most prominent projects and initiatives launched and implemented by the Council, under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to achieve these national goals, including the development of the “Gender Balance Guide” in cooperation with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the study and review of laws and legislation related to gender balance and empowerment. Women’s economy, where more than 22 new legislation and legal amendments were issued during the past years, covering the areas of work, protection, political participation, personal status, the judiciary, wages, banking transactions, freedom of movement, entrepreneurship, property and pension.
She pointed to the presence of women in the aviation sector in the UAE at high rates, as it currently employs approximately 27,000 women, representing 42% of the workforce in it in general, and the General Civil Aviation Authority has worked to increase the percentage of women’s representation in leadership positions to 19% in general. 2022, and to 21% in technical specialties, and the overall enabling environment in this sector has improved from 46% in 2017 to 86% in 2022, which reflects the efforts made to provide a gender-friendly work environment.
She added that efforts to enhance women’s participation in the labor market extended to the UAE private sector to keep pace with the achievements made at the government level through the launch of the “Pledge to Accelerate the Fifth Goal of the Sustainable Development Goals”, as the signatory companies voluntarily committed to increasing the representation of women in middle and senior management positions to 30. % as a minimum by 2025, and 64 companies operating in a range of sectors including aviation, financial services and energy have joined this initiative.
Her Excellency Huda Al Hashimi shed light on the framework of the Gender Balance Index for the UAE, the criteria that were applied, and the methodology for evaluating the participating entities, stressing that honoring the figures and entities that win the index annually is part of the strategic plans in the country to achieve gender balance in all sectors, and to inspire more institutions. and individuals to take effective steps.
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Reda Abdel Nour
2023-07-12 17:09:15
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