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Women and men, in other words, have different needs, constraints and entitlements and any changes in the trade policy programmes of developing countries will have different impacts on men and women , and hence on gender equality. Increasing gender equality can have a significant positive impact on maximising the potential of women to benefit from increased trade liberalisation and to support trade expansion. For reasons of this nature, Geneva Women in International Trade (GWIT) – with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Women Ambassadors in Geneva - organized a session on ”Women as Economic Players in Sustainable Development” at the recently-held АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ Public Symposium. This session was the first-ever session on gender and trade in this forum. GWIT Objectives The purpose of the session was to draw the attention of the АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ and the multilateral trading system to the significant contributions that women make in international trade, and to lay a marker for further discussion of this issue at the multilateral trade level. The title of the session,” Women as Economic Players in Sustainable Development” was intended to recognise these contributions. The session also sought to highlight the impact of trade liberalisation on women: both the benefits and the adverse effects of such liberalisation on half the world’s population. As noted by Cherise Valles, the President of GWIT, there were four key messages that the session was intended to underline: Women greatly contribute to world trade, sometimes in ways that are not recognized ; Women are profoundly affected by world trade and trade rules ; Women should play a more active role in the formulation of such trade policy and trade rules, and ; АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ Members should consider a greater focus on gender issues in the multilateral trading system. Session speakers The session included a geographically diverse group of speakers from both the public and private sectors: Dr. Mariama Williams, a noted feminist economist, Jamaican born, with the International Gender and Trade Network; Reema Nanavaty, the Secretary General of the 530,000 member Self-Employed Women’s Association in India; Tembeka Nkamba-van Wyk, a successful South African entrepreneur; and, Heather Gibb, a researcher from Canada’s North-South Institute. Key messages of the speakers included: Women, as producers and consumers, are important contributors to world trade; Women are, at the same time, profoundly affected by trade liberalization and АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ rules while often not benefiting from concomitant market access and employment opportunities; 70 percent of the world's poor are women, many of whom labour in the subsistence agricultural sector or in the unvalued household and informal sectors; and women should play a more active role in the formulation of national as well as international trade policy. For these reasons, АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ Members should initiate consideration of the gender and trade issues in the multilateral trading system. Comments and questions from the audience Canadian Ambassador, Sergio Marchi, explained how his Government had come to recognise the economic importance of gender and noted why it is of systemic relevance for the АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ. He also outlined a number of concrete steps that might be taken to profit from the momentum that this session has generated, including: immediate circulation of a summary report on the event to all АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ delegations, Directors within the АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ Secretariat and АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ Deputy Director Generals; a GWIT presence at the upcoming АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ Ministerial in Cancun; Organisation of a conference on gender and trade next year, sponsored by the АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ and its sister institutions, and; an active policy of considering female applicants in the making of hiring decisions with respect to the delivery of technical cooperation, and political appointments within the Secretariat and the staffing of the newly appointed Advisory Boards by the Director-General of the АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ. Participants also called for a Ministerial statement in Cancun that would recognize the importance of taking women into consideration in trade policy formulation. A delegate from Oman, observing that she had heard very little about these issues previously, said that there was a need for training for female delegates. Finally, a number of questions addressed the issue of entrepreneurial cultures amongst women and how they might be cultivated in countries where they are less prevalent. Assessment of session The session was an unambiguous success. The speakers provided a comprehensive and stimulating overview of the issues that we had hoped to emphasize and the audience responded with a variety of spirited questions and comments. Most importantly perhaps, a number of concrete suggestions with respect to what might be done to address the differential affects of trade policies and programmes on women and men emerged from the session. They are summarised below. Possible next steps In addition to the concrete suggestions offered by Ambassador Marchi and participants’ call for a Ministerial statement in Cancun recognising the importance of taking women into consideration in trade policy formulation, the session’s moderator, Ambassador Bikщ, suggested that further study of the gender-differentiated impact that trade liberalisation can have as well as consideration of the role that the АФУХСљКЯВЪЙйЭјзЪСЯ might play in the future on gender and trade issues might be appropriate. 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