More reason to celebrate India's woman power

Mumbai: An elite and diverse group of over 30 top-notch speakers including Melinda Gates are set to make a strong case for a gender-responsive economic recovery plan at the third edition of The Economic Times Women’s Forum (ETWF). That India’s economic destiny is profoundly entwined with the fortunes of the country’s half a billion women is a well-known fact. But in the harsh economic fallout of the Covid-19 crisis, no recovery plan can succeed without also harnessing their full economic potential.

The forum will bring together a glittering array of speakers including Stephanie C. Hill, Executive VP, Rotary and Mission Systems, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive Chairperson, Biocon; Aruna Jayanthi, MD, Capgemini Asia Pacific and Latin America; Ankiti Bose, Cofounder & CEO, Zilingo; Rekha Menon, Chairman & MD, Accenture India; Gagandeep Kang, Scientist, Fellow of Royal Society London; and fashion designer Ritu Beri. Tennis icon Sania Mirza, politician Mahua Moitra and actor Sonali Bendre will also be addressing the Forum.

The 2020 ET Women’s Forum will unfold from September 23 in a new online avatar, cognizant of the new social and business realities imposed by the pandemic. But it will stay true to its original mission of collaboratively creating an urgent, sustainable and national culture of empowering India’s half a billion women. The ET Women’s Forum hopes to seed and water many new ideas and conversations around facilitating greater participation and reducing gender inequality in every sphere of life, work and play.