The meeting combined both a business-oriented and warm atmosphere. It brought together women leading businesses of various scales — from small enterprises to major industrial companies.
It is difficult to imagine any sphere without women. Many hold leadership positions and actively participate in public life. Qualities such as the ability to negotiate and set clear goals help them successfully meet challenges and achieve results. At the same time, they remain caring wives, mothers, grandmothers, and sisters, preserving family comfort and giving love to their relatives.
Tatyana Lisitsina, Deputy of the Regional Council of Deputies and General Director of the Spartak Joint Open Joint Stock Company, noted that women make up 70 percent of the factory’s workforce of nearly two thousand employees. Lyudmila Sapego, Member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus, Deputy of the Regional Council of Deputies, and General Director of the enterprise “Pharmacia”, cited her own organization as an example, where more than 90 percent of employees are women.
Antonina Yezhova, Deputy Head for Property Management of the Gomel-Raton Free Economic Zone Administration, presented an interesting portrait of a businesswoman in the Gomel Region: 40 years old, married, and holding a higher education degree. Traditionally, the most popular fields among women remain services, consulting, advertising, marketing, the beauty industry, design, and light industry. Overall, women entrepreneurs account for more than 40 percent of all people employed in business nationwide.
At “Spartak” and “Radamir”, participants became acquainted with production processes and modern technologies used to manufacture high-quality products, and also learned about the history and current development of the brands.
