Empowering equality: Vision leads to progress
The text is a speech given by the First Lady of Cyprus, Philippa Karsera-Christodoulides, at the Women Leaders’ Forum. She discusses the importance of empowering equality, having a vision for inclusive participation and social transformation, and the need for women to be more involved in decision-making roles. The fact described in the text is that in the composition of the Council of Ministers in Cyprus, women make up 39%, and in the Boards of Directors of semi-government organizations, women make up 40%, especially in the positions of presidents and vice presidents.