BCSE held the opening ceremony “RING THE BELL FOR GENDER EQUALITY”
On March 7, 2023, in celebration of International Women’s Day, the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange held the annual event “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality”, which marked the grand opening of the trading day.
In his opening speech, the BCSE Chairman Andrei Aukhimenia highlighted the importance of ensuring gender equality for sustainable economic development and growth and noted the satisfactory level of this issue at the Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange, which is the result of the consistent policy pursued by the management aimed at ensuring equal participation of women in the management bodies of the exchange, preventing gender discrimination in matters of remuneration and career growth.
Today, women make up 52% of BCSE employees, occupy three of the six seats in the BCSE Supervisory Board, 39% of the BCSE structural divisions heads are women.
In 2023, the Republic of Belarus ranked 36th in the world among 146 countries in the overall ranking of the gender gap.
The event was held to support the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, which currently includes 130 world exchanges, in partnership between such international structures as UN Global Compact, UN Women, International Finance Corporations, World Federation of Exchanges and Women in ETFs as global partners.
This year, over 110 of the world’s largest exchange platforms announced the holding of similar events dedicated to the opening/closing of trading.
