Women of Impact

Just hours before this year’s Cartier Women’s Initiative award ceremony in Shenzhen, Tatler sat down with Cyrille Vigneron, president and CEO of Cartier, and Cécile Naour, CEO of Cartier China, to discuss why empowering female impact entrepreneurs is more important than ever

By Ahy Choi

In 2018, Tokyo Medical University admitted to having altered exam results to ensure fewer than 30 per cent of successful applicants would be female. They did this for more than a decade, contending that female graduates would leave the industry to have children. The scandal, uncovered by the Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun, shocked the world. It remains one of the stories that keeps Cartier president and CEO Cyrille Vigneron saying that, even with a global effort, there is always more to be done when it comes to empowering women in their professional fields. “Seventy per cent of our employees are women,” says Vigneron. “It is not only natural for us to listen to women, but a necessity.” The Cartier Women’s Initiative (CWI) was first conceived in 2006 as part…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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