NINTH MEETING OF WOMEN SPEAKERS OF PARLIAMENT Economic empowerment of women: Women speakers of parliament taking the lead IPU Headquarters, Geneva (Switzerland), 4-5 September 2014

	The Meeting will be held under the overall theme of the “Economic empowerment of women” and will examine how women Speakers should take the lead in working towards that goal. Important questions will be explored such as: how to build a social, cultural and legal environment that is conducive to the economic empowerment of women? How to ensure that national budgets and policies take into account women’s needs? How to facilitate women taking a leading role on this? The meetings of women Speakers of Parliament aim at providing to women in the highest decision making positions of parliament a regular forum and opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences on gender issues which are of interest to their national and international agendas.

SESSION DOCUMENTS
	Conclusions [PDF]
	Declaration [PDF]
	General information note [PDF: English, French]
	Provisional agenda [PDF: English, French]
	Photos of the meeting on Flickr
RELATED SITES AND DOCUMENTS
	Previous Meetings of Women Speakers of Parliament: 8th (2013), 7th (2012), 6th  (2010), 5th  (2009), 3rd  (2007)
	Women in politics (IPU website)
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