How can business advance gender equality across the value chain by engaging men as allies?

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A huge thank you to all our panellists and participants today, its been an incredibly rich conversation. The discussion will stay live so if you have just joined us you can still post a comment. We will also summarise the discussion and turn it into a blog post for any of you who were unable to join today. Thanks again and do sign up to our Challenge if you want to stay involved and receive a copy of our final report.
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A big thank you from me. A great discussion and I learned a great deal. Look forward to continuing it.

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@Nikkivdg on the 4th point - I think its essential to have male role models talking about how important this is and the urgent need for more action to accelerate progress - but to balance this with making more female models visible too - in leadership, technical roles - and also challenging ‘stereotypes of a male leadership style’

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Many thanks @AliceAllan and to all our participants - great discussion and look forward to staying connected on this key topic!

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Thanks for organising @AliceAllan and to all my fellow participants for their many insights!

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Thanks to all these amazing panelists, to Alice and BFP for moderating, and for all your groups for doing this good work.

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Thanks everyone, what a great and rich discussion on a really important topic!

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Thank you Alice and BFP and everyone! This is a very important and rich discussion and I hope that it continues! As we promote gender equality we can see better workplaces and communities.

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Thank you all! Very rich and nuanced discussion (for once!) :slight_smile: Would love to receive some of the resources and stats shared earlier… @AliceAllan - would that be possible?
Thank you again!

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Thanks @AliceAllan and to all the other panelists and everyone who commented - what a fantastic discussion. Really great to learn about so many positive examples of work and progress in this space. This is definitely an area where we should all keep sharing and collaborating to accelerate progress as it really does benefit everybody!

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Turn a husehold to an enterprise unit and a community to an enterprise hub linked to natonial commercial targeting.Every member will have a role as part of success agenda.
Subsistence is catalyst or root of poverty in many cases, women being at forefront of making ends meet in poverty ridden communities, just surviving on subsistence. Establishing or encouraging the mind of enterprise is often the weapon to break subsistence and thereby poverty. The fundamental of establishing an enterprise, in a team, in this case a househld is to establish clear practical Roles, Responsibilities, Rights, and Risks or Liabilities and encourage SWOT for each aspect in a practical aspect such as the enteprise of indeed the household primary objective, for example financial well being. In most cultures in poverty ridden communities, the rights of the woman to production resources such as land or property are not a threat until there is signficance in output, then in power sharing, Equality therefore becomes e a threat and the man disconnects or overbears in authority and these are key indicators of failure, and remaining rooted in Poverthy. Clear roles and benefit sharing would still maitain the set up of headsip of the man but the drive to grow or prosper the household would oblige the man to enagge as not just ally but usually a formidable partner.