Why organise this 1st WAVE Forum “Women as an Added Value to the Economy”?
Beginning 2008, following the considerable success of the new Corporate Member program, Caroline Miller, CWF President, thought to bring together CEOs and top management of all these Corporate Members in order to share experiences, best practices and ideas about how they prepare the future of their company by integrating the largest workforce in today’s economy: women. Women’s economic participation is increasingly seen as the key to sustainable development. This is not a simple reform; it is really a revolution in the economy. This 1st WAVE Forum was dedicated to all the companies, international organisations and banks that are waking up to “womenomics” as Avivah Wittenberg-Cox would say. To quote her: “The economic revolution is created by women’s growing power and potential. No business can afford to ignore it”….or another quote from the magazine The Economist about Avivah’s book (April 2006): “Forget about China, India and the Internet; economic growth is driven by women.” That i
