{"id":80899,"date":"2026-05-17T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=80899"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:18:31","slug":"chairs-statement-on-the-apec-women-and-the-economy-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=80899","title":{"rendered":"Chair\u2019s Statement on the APEC Women and the Economy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Issued by the APEC High-Level Dialogue on Women and the Economy<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Shanghai, People&#8217;s Republic of China, 17 May 2026<\/em>On Friday in Shanghai, Huang Xiaowei, Vice President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women&#8217;s Federation and Chair of the 2026 APEC Women and the Economy Forum, shared with ministers a statement that reflects the commitments and way forward for APEC to advance women&#8217;s economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>The statement laid out the priorities discussed during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apec.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=659cda5df05da94188f4acaae&amp;id=967f6a1685&amp;e=f0773073fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/apec.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D659cda5df05da94188f4acaae%26id%3D967f6a1685%26e%3Df0773073fa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1779115835694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3knrbbVN1zsjYib2Ad_dsA\"><strong>High-Level Policy Dialogue on Women and the Economy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and provided policy directions for member economies to support advancing equality and women\u2019s economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>Through the statement, member economies exchanged ideas and shared experiences under the theme &#8220;Promoting Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment to Prosper Together in the Asia-Pacific&#8221; through the following key areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promoting women\u2019s and girl\u2019s full, effective and meaningful participation and leadership in digital transformation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Upholding women\u2019s meaningful participation and leadership in decision-making and management to ensure they benefit equally from technological advances and sustainable economic growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitating economic growth that expands women&#8217;s employment opportunities and promoting policies that support flexible work arrangements, new forms of employment and work-life balance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting women&#8217;s entrepreneurship and their participation and leadership in trade and global value chains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Understanding the importance of quality care systems and family support infrastructure, ministers also encouraged greater recognition of paid and unpaid care and collaboration in caring responsibilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued by the APEC High-Level Dialogue&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80900,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80899\/revisions\/80900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}