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Women and girls remain highly underrepresented in public life, the economy and the workforce worldwide; in the Middle East, participation scores well below the global rate. This special spotlight report identifies the challenges companies in Arab societies may face in advancing gender equality and outlines the economic and business opportunities for the private sector when engaging in male allyship to advance gender equality.

Download this report today to explore the most recent data and learn from case studies from large companies in the Middle East.

Target Gender Equality is a gender equality accelerator programme for participating companies of the UN Global Compact. Through facilitated performance analysis, capacity building workshops, peer-to-peer learning, and multi-stakeholder dialogue at the country level. Target Gender Equality will support companies engaged with the UN Global Compact in setting and reaching ambitious corporate targets for women’s representation and leadership, starting with the Board and Executive Management levels.