Women20 for co-sharing expertise and responsibilities to tackle gender equality: experiences from the Italian presidency of G20

Abstract

Women 20 (W20) is the official Gender Equality group aimed at influencing G20 leaders’ statements and commitments, to ensure that gender issues are incorporated into G20 leaders’ discussions and then translated into the leaders’ Declaration as policies and commitments to promote gender equality and economic empowerment of women. Each G20 member state has a W20 delegation composed of non-governmental gender experts from civil society organizations, women entrepreneurs, businesses, think tanks, international organizations, and academia. The paper illustrates the approaches and recommendations of Women20 during the Italian Presidency in 2021, formulated about Digital Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability in particular, and the handover with the Indonesia Presidency in 2022.