I had already experienced two “Davos moments” in the Swiss mountain town: as I entered the congress center I passed Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and then IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
Quite a view from our #Davos2015 studio atop the Alps! #CNN pic.twitter.com/79zC1rnXHK
“You can have it all, despite what you’re reading in all the magazines that you can’t,” Cairns told me as I interviewed her for CNN’s Leading Women series.
She’s just one of many high-profile women attending WEF this year, and rejects the notion that working mothers can’t have successful careers.
Women's issues are high on the @Davos agenda this year. WEF Nudging the Business Gender Gap — leading table discussion on financial services
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WEF’s mission statement says it is “committed to improving the state of the world through public-private cooperation.” And as Ann Cairns tweeted: “men and women make truly productive teams.” Let’s hope in the coming years they will also be equal in number.
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The opinions expressed in this story are solely those of Poppy Harlow.
