Given the influential role and extensive network of chambers of commerce in the private sector, this collaboration will create a platform to achieve the mutual goals of UN Women and the private sector for sustainable development.

[Press Release] On 8 March 2024, the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in the Republic of Korea (the Centre) convened its second International Women's Day celebration at Hotel Westin Josun in Seoul.

This was a common message of women leaders who spoke at ‘1st Seoul Gender Equality Dialogue: Breaking Gender Barriers for a Better Future of Key Industries,’ organized by the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality (the Centre) in the Republic of Korea on November 2. With some 300 people attending.

[16, 28 and 32 per cent] This under-representation of talented women hinders gender equality, innovation, and prosperity. Increasing women in under-represented industries is therefore not just a “women’s issue,” but an economic imperative.

[Press release] the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in Seoul hosted a policy forum to explore strategies for private sector, governments, and international organizations to address and narrow the gender pay gap.

"We want to gain insights from the United Nations on how companies can internalize efforts for gender equality," one participant noted in the online feedback system on why they joined UN Women’s workshop in Seoul on the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

Almost 60 -private representatives attended Korea’s first workshop on the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), hosted by the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in the Republic of Korea on 20 April 2023. “The Centre aims to help and communicate with companies' efforts to promote gender equality, starting with this event,” said its Director Jeongshim Lee. The WEPs Workshop for Korea was held in partnership with the UN Global Compact Network Korea at The Plaza Hotel, Seoul.