Gates event: 'Closing gaps for good: Ensuring equitable recovery in a post-pandemic world'

From home schooling to domestic violence to education and child marriage, the pandemic has disproportionately affected women, increasing a gender gap already far too wide.

As we begin to emerge from the crisis, we must create an inclusive society that capitalises on the full potential of all its citizens, to eliminate inequality and poverty. The poverty cycle is inextricably linked with women’s education and career opportunities. Closing the gender gap will narrow the poverty divide and increase opportunities for more than 50 per cent of the world’s population. It could double the number of minds examining and solving challenges at micro and macro levels.

It is time to turn our world around. How can we work together to remove the structural barriers and traditions that mean women, while bearing the bulk of work in the home, struggle to make their way through education and to achieve beyond it?

Join Melinda Gates, Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope, and three remarkable Gates Cambridge Scholars for an inspirational discussion about advancing the rights of women and multiplying human resources for good, across the globe.

For full speaker details and booking information see the Philanthropy pages.