Priyanthi Fernando of IWRAW AP at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting

Priyanthi Fernando of IWRAW AP at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting

October 2018

• Theme: Business and Women's Human Rights, Care Economy, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Macroeconomics.
• Type: Video.
• Region/Country: Global.
• Language: English.

What are the biggest barriers to women’s progression, and what role can the public and private sectors play? Priyanthi Fernando, executive director of IWRAW Asia Pacific, speaks at the IMF gender seminar ‘Empowering Women in the Workplace’. In these clips, she shares her views on the event hashtag #Women4Growth; highlights barriers to empowerment, particularly for women in the Global South; and calls for the recognition, reduction and redistribution of unpaid care work.

Duration: 9:08
Subtitles: English