On Wednesday 8 March, for International Women's Day, 300 ICN students and a dozen staff members attended the conference "Women's Rights Around the World" organised by ICN.
ICN hosted excellent speakers for this conference:
- Krista Finstad-Milion, Gender Equality Officer at ICN Business School and Chair of the France-Benelux Chapter of the United Nations’ Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME).
- Lucy Mushita, author of the prize-winning book Chinongwa that denounces the system of child brides worldwide, advocate for women writers in UNESCO.
- Agathe Simon, valedictorian of ICN's Bachelor and PGE programmes in 2011 and 2014 and CSR officer at Juratoys;
- Simon Carpentier, researcher on gender equality who has worked for the UN, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE);
Did you know?
For over 10 years, ICN has positioned itself as a socially responsible and committed business school, with a strong focus on female/male equality and fight against sexual and gender-based violence. ICN was ranked by the professional equality index of the Ministry of Labour as the number one business school for gender equality in 2022, with an outstanding score of 96/100. As an active member of the Chapitre des Grandes Ecoles' (CGE) working group on female/male equality, ICN has contributed to numerous key initiatives, including the drafting of the first White Paper on female/male equality, as well as various events promoting gender equality such as the annual poster and video stereotype-fighting competition. ICN has also implemented a global female/male equality strategy that includes promoting female entrepreneurs and internal and external experts, and establishing a mechanism to combat sexual and gender-based violence.