Did you know?

• Nearly 60% of women around the world work in the informal economy, earning less, saving less, and are at greater risk of falling into poverty.
• Women earn 23% less than men globally. For example in the UK, women essentially working 'for free' from 18th November 2021 till end of the year due to pay gap.
• Women occupy only 24% of parliamentary seats worldwide.
• 1 in 3 have experienced physical or sexual violence and 200 million girls and women have suffered genital mutilation.

At this event, BritCham Shanghai is delighted to invite various extraordinary speakers to discuss how gender gap can affect organisational structures, processes, and practices. Human Resources departments are at the very centre of the organisation and are responsible for HR practices that affect hiring, training, pay and promotion for women. The speakers will be discussing topics ranging from recruitment, mentoring, procedures addressing discrimination and sexual harassment, unconscious bias training and conducting initiatives such as a pay equality audit.



Agenda:

• 4:30 pm: In-person registration, networking
• 4:50 pm (UK 8:50 am): Online ZOOM login
• 5:00 pm (UK 9:00 am): Opening remarks by Joanne Cattermole, Co-Chair, BritCham Shanghai Women in Business Committee
• 5:05 pm (UK 9:05 am): Keynote video by Caroline Wilson DCMG, British Ambassador to China
• 5:10 pm (UK 9:10 am): Keynote video by Ruikan Yang, Partnership Specialist at UN Women
• 5:20 pm (UK 9:20 am): Keynote speech by Guangyu Li, Senior Partner, McKinsey
• 5:50 pm (UK 9:50 am): Panel discussion with Carmen Li, Director at Control Risks; Charlene Li, Co-Founder of Ladies Who Tech; Sherry Fu, Managing Director, China, The University of Manchester; Guangyu Li, Senior Partner, McKinsey. Moderated by Grace Guan, Co-Chair, BritCham Shanghai Women in Business Committee)
• 6:40 pm (UK 10:40 am): Q&A
• 7:00 pm (UK 11:00 am): Event ends

Notes:

• We do encourage attendees to bring their own reusable cups to our events.
• For online attendees, you will receive an email with a ZOOM meeting ID and password around 5 pm, 1 December. Please ensure your email address is valid, and please make sure to check your junk box as well.
• In case of cancellation, please kindly note you must email admin@britishchambershanghai.cn before 5 pm, 30 November 2021. Due to the service charges of Glueup and online payment platforms, we can only partially refund up to 90% of your ticket price and payment will be processed within 14 days after the event via your original payment method. However, it is non-refundable for cancellation request made beyond the above-mentioned timeframe.