In this episode of The Belonging Project Podcast, we talk with Paula Tavares, Senior Legal and Gender Specialist at The World Bank, her work focuses on promoting gender-informed policy-making, improving the legal framework protecting women from discrimination, and gender-based violence, and enhancing women’s economic opportunity.

“Fortunately nowadays, with more visibility of the current reality, companies in the private and public sector are creating more laws and policies to support more women in the workplace”, says Paula. She shared her experience working with countries in Africa and South America supporting women's equality, and also how the pandemic has affected and exacerbated existing problems especially regarding gender-based violence and equality in the workplace and the needs for women who have been overburdened for many years.

Belonging to her is being accepted for who you are,  having the emotional and physical safety, feeling as equal. Accepting the differences and accepting the individuals for who they are. Belonging is feeling at ease and comfortable being yourself, wherever you are.

Follow Paula Tavares’s work on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulattavares/

World Bank  Group https://www.worldbank.org/en/home

World Bank Gender Equality https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/dime/brief/dime-gender-program

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