Trudeau promotes Time’s Up, #MeToo movements
Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged international leaders to do more to promote women’s rights, including confronting widespread concerns over sexual misconduct and assault, on the main stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. “#MeToo, Time’s Up, the Women’s March, these movements tell us that we need to have a critical discussion on women’s rights, equality and the power dynamics of gender,” he said. “Sexual harassment, for example — in business and in government — is a systemic problem and it is unacceptable. As leaders, we need to act to show that truly, time is up.”
Mr Trudeau argued that a fundamental shift needs to be made by hiring and promoting more women.
“Not just because it’s the right thing to do, or the nice thing to do, but because it’s the smart thing to do,” he said.
Mr Trudeau said there’s strong evidence that doing so would boost profitability and a country’s gross domestic product.
The president and CEO of ABB group, a multinational corporation specialising in robotics and automation, agrees.
“Look, if you take our Canadian team, it’s led by a lady, Nathalie Pilon. She’s doing a fantastic job and we got a great level of diversity there. And all empirical study basically shows that management teams that have a good diversity perform better,” said Ulrich Spiesshofer.