Ep. 6: Thinking out Loud with Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun

0.00 Intro 0.57 Who is Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun 1.38 Zineb’s journey 13:14 Women’s liberation through laws 16:00 What unifies Arab women 18:54 How to get to the UN 26:43 Gender inequality in the workplace and the pay gap 31.52 Better representation of women in peace building Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun is the Former UN Resident Coordinator to Kuwait and Albania. She served at the United Nations Fund for Women, UNIFEM, (now part of UN Women) as the organization’s Representative in Morocco and Regional Program Director for North Africa. Prior to this, she was the Program Coordinator for UNIFEM’s North Africa Office and the UNIFEM Gender Advisor for Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. NB: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the American University of Beirut, or UN Women, the United Nations, or any of its affiliated organizations. UN Women is grateful for financial support for this activity from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Music by Marc Codsi.