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A male champion for gender equality
Advocating for women at
home and in the workplace
udina says it’s important for men
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to encourage women to participate
in, and speak up, at meetings and to
advance women through the ranks of an
organization. Women are our
“As a Male Champion, you look around
and see where are the women in the wives, our mothers,
meeting? How many of them? Are they
powerful? At what decision level? I
have to tell them they must be very our daughters, our
strong.”
“Women are our wives, our mothers, sisters. They should
our daughters, our sisters,” he says.
“They should be treated equally. I am
encouraging my daughters to be in the be treated equally.
front, to do their best to be future
leaders.”
Male Champions for Women’s Empowerment Initiative meeting in Vienna, Austria, led by CIWA Senior GESI Consultant Ellen Hagerman, 0078
March 2024. ©Dereje Gebre Michael
