The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the UN Global Compact (UNGC) today called on the business community to implement recruitment and retention practices that advance women’s empowerment and inclusion and urged them to proactively appoint women as managers, executives and board members. The call for action is part of the Women’s Empowerment Principles—Equality Means Business, seven steps for companies to take to empower women in the workplace...[refers to COPEL, Symantec]