Through The G20, Access For Women In Managerial Leads Is Expected To Be More Open

JAKARTA - Assistant Deputy for Participation of Professional Institutions and the Business World Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA), Eko Novi Ariyanti, said that through the issue of women's leadership in the G20 Empower, it is hoped that women's access to leadership at the managerial level will be more open.

"Regarding the first issue note, namely accountability for KPI implementation. This issue note discusses the percentage of women on the board of directors and technical roles in the company so that later the policies they implement will have an impact on women and vulnerable groups at the grassroots", said Eko Novi through a G20 press release in Jakarta, Thursday, January 2.

According to Eko, several companies in Indonesia have made efforts to increase the capacity of women workers, so that women can have access to become leaders at the managerial level.

The second issue note, namely G20 Empower, encourages companies to support women who run SMEs through their policies. This is because small and medium-sized business groups run by women can encourage the country's economic growth.

"We just raised this second issue note at the Indonesian Presidency, because we know that women in SMEs have a big contribution to be an economic driver, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and this issue note received a very good response from G20 countries", said Eko.

G20 Empower also discussed future economic readiness through improving women's skills and digital capabilities in the third issue note.

"On the one hand, we also encourage companies that are male-dominated to continue to provide opportunities for women to access training related to technology", said Eko.

G20 Empower is the only alliance consisting of the government and the private sector that aims to accelerate the leadership and empowerment of women in G20 countries.

Advocate G20 Empower is a leader of a company who can make decisions and has an internal role to promote gender equality in the company.

Currently, Indonesia has around 60 advocates and shares good practices with advocates from other G20 countries.