Emily's Path Consulting

Karin Tischler (F)

CEO

I am committed to implementing the Women's Empowerment Principles because changing society's attitude towards professionals who are trying to return to paid work is my mission. Instead of treating unpaid care work as a vacation or a resume gap we should look at what it truly is. It is a multitude of jobs and tasks that teach many transferable soft/business skills which are skills that are becoming more and more important in the business world. According to a recent McKinsey report there is estimated to be a 24 percent rise in hours spent by U.S. and European workers on soft skills by 2055." "The more we are able to equally divide unpaid care work between men and women and to make it socially desirable to offer and take paternity leaves, to offer more flexible work (job-sharing, top-sharing, part-time careers) the more we are able to normalize it. This will lead the world to get to female economic empowerment and thus gender equality faster than it is currently projected." "Women cannot get to gender equality alone. Especially male political and business leaders need to become active partners to jointly work on empowering women to increase female economic empowerment and thus gender equality." "If we can fix the unequal unpaid care work situation we will help every generation going forward".