Celebrating Diversity, Taking Action for Change

With news of COVID’s newest strain Omicron splashed across global headlines just before the holiday season, we hope everyone is prioritising their health and well-being.

There are three developments we wanted to share this week that intersect with gender:

International Day of Persons with Disabilities: This Friday marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, recognising the more than one billion people who experience disability cognitively, physically or a combination of the two. Hong Kong is home to over 570,000 people with disabilities, the majority women. According to the Association for Women with Disabilities in Hong Kong, women with disabilities are quite vulnerable to domestic violence and unmarried women with disabilities are more likely to take on caregiving responsibilities for parents within the family. Gender and disability are often compounded with issues like ageism and racism further pushing this population into the margins. Let’s better educate ourselves on how to support people with disabilities. Here are some ways to get started: learn more about the diversity and diverse challenges within disability and take action to be more inclusive.

Legal action demanded on menopause discrimination: In the UK, women have been filing lawsuits against their employers in increasing numbers citing menopause as evidence of unfair dismissal and sex, age or disability discrimination. While no discrimination lawsuits regarding menopause have yet been filed in Hong Kong, it is a vital issue that employers should meaningfully address. TWF held a panel discussion last week that looked at the importance of creating a menopause-friendly workplace and can be a useful starting point to understanding and providing support on this issue (watch the recording here). Menopause will continue to be an area that we explore in our work and advocacy in the months and years ahead.

Female firsts: This week, there are a couple of women leaders who made history. Dame Sandra Mason was elected as Barbados’ first head of state as an independent republic. Xiomara Castro is poised to become the first female President of Honduras and vows to ease strict abortion laws. Earlier this month, Falguni Nayar, founder of India’s leading beauty retailer Nykaa made international headlines as India’s wealthiest self-made female billionaire after Nykaa’s parent company, FSN E-Commerce Ventures, went public. At TWF, we advocate for women’s representation at the highest levels of leadership in business and public life through our suite of Pipeline programmes and initiatives including the 30% Club Hong Kong and Boardroom Series for Women Leaders, which all help to advance gender equality. Advancing women leaders is critical as this role modelling and influence trickles down into organisations and society as a whole.

While we celebrate these women leaders, let’s also work to better understand and recognise how the diverse experiences of gender alongside disability, age, race, sexual orientation and many other factors, influence our collective efforts to create gender equality and inclusion for all.

Get in touch at Fiona.Nott@twfhk.org.

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