The 6th annual report

The 6th. annual report
EQUAL PAY DAY
in the Czech Republic
OFFICAL REPORT OF THE BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WOMEN PRAGUE II
EQUAL PAY DAY 2015 CZECH REPUBLIC
NEW FORMAT - 2 days of work–adventure conference
the biggest professional women‘s networking event in the Czech Republic ever
2.011 registrations!
53 women mentors as role models
25 conference guest speakers
77 volunteers
Business & Professional
Women Prague II
Czech Republic
FRIDAY‘S CONFERENCE
3 panel discussions, 4 solo performances, 300 cheerful
and energetic participants
emotions, tears and plenty of laughter during tens of personal
and emotional stories
3 main goals like the Equal Pay in the Czech Republic,
the Work-life balance and the Empower women‘s self-confidence
themes - Young “guns” – a good example of practice,
women leadership, bossing, women in men‘s world, etc.
women speakers from the TV,
general leader positions, private
sector, gender expert professionals
and corporations
„If a woman wants to be
successful in business, she
must know what she wants
and know her rights,“
Shigeri Takamatsu
marketing director of Cartier
SPECIAL GUEST
VIP guest was Mrs. Věra Jourová – a Czech politician, lawyer and businesswoman
since November 2014 the Commissioner for Justice, consumer protection and
gender issues in the Juncker European Commission
EPD has got an official support from
the representation office of the European
Commission in the Czech Republic
www.bpwcr.cz
SATURDAY‘S MENTORING
53 mentors as role models
21 round tables in 5 time blocks
5.340 minutes of speed mentoring provided
89 (1-hour blocks) discussion tables for sharing the knowledge and women‘s energy
mentoring in English was available, for the first time in the EPD history
weekend event helped visitors to come from the whole Czech Republic, Poland
and Slovakia!
age of the participants
career status of the participans
blue - maternity leave
green - private sector
yellow - employment
PARTNERSHIP 2015
PARTNERSHIP 2015
BIG CAMPAIGN
media interested
The size and the tradition of the event was attractive to media for which the theme
of diversity was inspiring.
EPD was supported by the national Czech TV, main news channel
CT24, Guest lunch CT, morning show TV Nova, many interviews for
private TVs, most of the Czech radios (ad-spots), many of the daily
newspapers, life style media and magazines.
- video shootings with mentors and organizers
- many interviews not only with the gender experts
- official cooperation with the Czech Statistic Office (shared press conference)
www.bpwcr.cz
VISION 2016
Equal Pay Day 2016 – named ŽENY SOBĚ - Women themselves continue …
18th & 19th March 2016
7 years tradition
new faces, new topics and hopefully a strong international cooperation
wide EP campaign prolonged, starting in autumn 2015
EPD has successfully started a yearlong mentoring project called the Empowering
Women-BPW mentoring, which offers speed mentoring support for 80 women from
the entire country and has been filled in 8 days record time!
the project results will be presented at EPD 2016
bringing new members, loyal platform
of cooperating women, new women mentors
EQUAL PAY DAY ONLINE
For more information please visit
www.equalpayday.cz & www.bpwcr.cz
Videos from 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7dkCrbOuA - mentoring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUg1KH7YvI - conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxr-D4De19k – video mapping, 2 days presentation
Photogallery
http://www.equalpayday.cz/fotogalerie/
http://www.equalpayday.cz/mentoring-18-4/fotogalerie-mentoring-2015/
Contact:
Lenka Šťastná, president,
[email protected], Phone: 00420 602 383 880
PR manager Tereza Melišová, [email protected]