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Vision
WOMEN Inc. believes a self-conscious image and equal participation of women will not only lead to a improved individual position, it will simultaneously stimulate society in many areas with an obvious return on investment, both economically and socially.

Mission
WOMEN Inc. is an independent platform that strives for mentality change with respect to the role and participation of women in society, so that:
1. Women learn their individual strengths and expand their opportunities;
2. Society recognizes and makes full use of the value of women

Targets
WOMEN Inc. has set five goals, crucial to developing opportunities for women. WOMEN Inc.’s movement evolves around these targets:

• Economic independence
• Women participation and upward mobility
• Making use of women’s rights
• Increased diversity of women in the picture
• Emancipation of parenthood

WOMEN Inc. Festival
The WOMEN Inc. Festival: Booming Business On March 5th and 6th, 2010, WOMEN Inc. will hold her third international WOMEN Inc. Festival in Amsterdam. This festival will celebrate 100 unique, promising women from across the world. Through the theme: “Invest in women, now”, WOMEN Inc. will illustrate yearly to a global audience, that women are BOOMING BUSINESS. WOMEN Inc. presents its impressive list of striking and groundbreaking women who made a difference in the previous years. From 2010 onwards, the Festival will return to Amsterdam every year.

In 2005, the first WOMEN Inc. Festival took place in de Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, with over 6000 visitors. Largly because of our modern interpretation and perception of the contemporary women’s movement as professional, targeted, vigorous, accessible, unprejudiced and self-conscious, the festival was a great success. This movement has been closely scrutinised and followed by young and foreign women.

In 2007, WOMEN Inc. booked further lasting success by organising an even larger second edition of the Festival, with an impressive line-up of guests, including the Dutch Royal Princess Maxima, French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, Dutch vice-prime minister Wouter Bos, SER (Social Economic Counsel) President Alexander Rinnooy Kan, President of the Board of Directors of Unilever, Morris Tabaksblatt, European Commissioner Neelie Kroes, and many others. Moreover, the Festival led
to a lot of publicity and media attention.

Montly Talkshows
WOMEN Inc. sets the agenda on social issues concerning women in monthly Talkshows. These evenings are focussed on current affairs and linked to our five main targets. These evenings attract hundreds of women and men, and have become the hotspot for among others politicians, policy makers, and journalists who are exposed to new voices and as a result, include them in their work. Through these meetings, WOMEN Inc. hopes to further develop the potential of women on every level. WOMEN
Inc. activities lead to increasing exposure in Dutch media. Some headlines: Minister Emancipation Plasterk: ‘WOMEN Inc. has an added value’. (Telegraaf 2008), ‘WOMEN Inc. invigorates feminist debates.’ (Trouw 2007)

In the country
WOMEN Inc. focuses on reaching women all over the country. In various Dutch areas, WOMEN Inc. organizes events based on the targets and fitting in with the local setting. Through these meetings WOMEN Inc. strives to empower women and to increase their opportunities.
Additionally, WOMEN Inc. participates in ‘joint-ventures’ with other parties. Commissioned by other parties, such as ministries, governments and large companies, WOMEN Inc. organizes meetings that correspond with her own targets.

‘New Girls Network’
WOMEN Inc. creates networks especially for women. Giving the ‘old boys networks’ a twist, WOMEN Inc has implemented the ‘New Girls Network’. This network has a digital exponent. In an online community, WOMEN Inc. brings together women from all different backgrounds and offers them a place to meet each other in order to exchange knowledge and experience, participate in discussions and write and publish articles. Apparently, it meets a need seeing that approximately 700 women have set
up a profile since the inception of the online community in march 2009, more than 10.000 women receive the WOMEN Inc. digital newsletter and thousands of women attend the ‘live’ meetings.

WOMEN Inc. Agency
Finally, WOMEN Inc. has a speakers agency; the WOMEN Inc. Agency, which is a database consisting of over 200 top-women. They are available on request for functions such as day-chair, speaker, moderator or journalist. By doing this, the Agency provides a fitting and very practical answer to the observed lack of women in the media, parliament and business life. The Agency has increased the visibility of interesting and prominent women in the Netherlands.