Ongoing global events have shown that women are increasingly making the leap forward, breaking barriers and instinctively realising their need to unite, rise up together and redefine parity in leadership and representation in the coming decade. Optimistic, enabling and progressive, this decade seems far more hopeful from the ones that have for years pushed women to the peripherals of our economy.

This narrative is not just about embedding equal gender rights, but creating a better world by leveraging cognitive diversity, experience and knowledge. Organisations today are not just looking for inclusion in its literal sense, but because it makes strong business sense to do so...