The United Nations Populations Fund Parity shared that it is essential for the achievement of sustainable development. The full participation and partnershipof both women and men is required in productive and reproductive life — not just in the workplace, but also in nurturing children and maintaining the house-hold.

However, the WEF Global Gender Gap report 2018 stressed that, at the cur-rent rate of change, it will take 108 years to close the overall gender gap and over two centuries to bring about parity in the workplace.

Armed with a significant role to create public awareness and shape informed public opinion,The Philippine STARwill hold a forum titled, “Decoding the Women in Influence.”

Here, we will sit down with the leading women in the country today and decodehow they effectively carry out their roles in society. In turn, we will raise issues hindering us from empowering women and taking steps to eliminate inequali-ties between genders.