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The editor of  Bloomberg Business Week, Megan Murphy, who was hosting the  "Promise or Peril: Decoding the Future of Work" session at Davos, asked panellists, including UNI Global Union General Secretary Philip Jennings,  whether women will benefit or be left behind in the Future World of Work.

The UNI GS gave an unequivocal response calling for proactive collective global action, citing UNI's own gender equality programme, 40for40

Jennings said, "We must all become feminists, every businessMAN has to become a feminist and think in those terms. Firstly that will begin to change the mindset and secondly women need a seat at the table. My organisation introduced a gender quota that transformed it. We now have quotas for women's representation for every single decicision-making body with in our global union and it has worked.

"In the business world (at the moment) it is not a feminist women's world at all. You cannot trust a bunch of  male senior executives to do the right thing when it comes to fair and equal pay. So we need more women in the boardroom and more women in line-management.

"All of these new thriving businesses who say they want a better world, every single one of them has to commit from day one that men and women will be paid equally and take into account family responsibilities too.

"We are making progress but the hard facts remain there is discrimination at the heart of the wage issue. When you look at inequality and unfair wage distribution, if we were to lift women's wages and ensure that there was equal pay, we would begin to lift the wage share again."

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2017/...

GO TO  57.45 to hear Jennings' comments

Below moderator Megan Murphy, asking the burning question about gender equality and pay