Women and the Future of Work - What Does the Evidence Tell Us? New Insights from Professor Linda Scott of DoubleXEconomy LLC.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Linda Scott, Founder of DoubleXEconomy LLC and Emeritus DP World Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School to give address at the 4th Global Forum on Business for Gender Equality: The Future of Work and the 2030 Agenda on February 27, 2018 in Santiago, Chile.  Professor Scott's remarks, titled The Future of Work: Gender Equality and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will immediately follow an intimate coffee with Her Excellence Michele Bachelet, President of the Republic of Chile. Thanks to rapid changes in genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and the rise of the sharing economy, many occupations will disappear within the next 30 years, required skills for employees will shift dramatically, and industries will transform and emerge. Professor Scott's session explores the implications of these trends for the workforce and how they will impact equality between men and women in the labor market. 

"I predict that women will not only draw equal to men in numbers in tech education, they will be better performers within fields where qualified talent is increasingly scarce.  But tech employers will continue to blindly chase only half the talent pool, if they can't reorient themselves in an inclusive way," declared Professor Scott after reviewing the latest data. 

Professor Scott dives deep into the data in her blog on the talk on www.doublexeconomy.com.

About DoubleXEconomy LLC

DoubleXEconomy is a world leading research and consulting firm committed to women's economic empowerment.  DXE provides expertise to organizations undertaking programs that better include women in the world economy.  It capitalizes on the expertise of its founder, Linda Scott, and founding CEO, Dr. Cynthia Drakeman, and builds on a global network of colleagues who have helped produce a wide-ranging platform of work on women's economic empowerment.

About the Global Forum on Business for Gender Equality

The 4th Global Forum on Business for Gender Equality brings together more than 400 business leaders, governments, academia, trade unions and civil society, from 25 countries, to share best practices for reducing gender gaps in the workplace and to highlight the role of the business sector as a key player in advancing gender equality and building inclusive work environments for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.  

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