Gender equity and justice

Join us in London, Osaka and online for the second event in our global partnership with the UK at Expo 2025.

5 August 2025, 09.30-10.30 (London) 17.30-18.30 (Osaka). Join us from 8:30 to 9:30am for networking over tea, coffee, and pastries at RSA House, ahead of the live simulcast panel. A chance to connect with speakers, delegates, and colleagues working across gender equity and policy.

The UK has a rich history of advancing women’s rights. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act granted voting rights to women over 30, with equal suffrage achieved in 1928. From the Equal Pay Act of 1970 to the Equality Act of 2010, trailblazing women have been at the forefront of building collective movements for progress and justice.

But there remain stubborn challenges and barriers to women’s full economic, legal, and social empowerment.

Linking speakers in the historic Great Room of the RSA in London and in the UK Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, this event will hear from today’s disruptors, influencers and innovators leading the charge for the protection and advancement of the rights of women and girls in the UK, and internationally – and for a future where everyone has equal opportunity to achieve their full potential.

More speakers will be announced soon.

Speakers

• Penny East, Chief Executive at the Fawcett Society
• Sakshi Bansal, Founder of Project Leap, Sr. Advisor at Private Equity Investments (Arup, UK), and President (SDGs) of the Women’s Chamber of Commerce (New Delhi, India)

Chairs

• Nina Nannar, journalist and arts editor for ITV News (London)
• Carolyn Davidson, UK Commissioner General for Expo 2025 (Osaka)

RSA and UK at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

A bold new events partnership celebrating the UK as a place to come to study, visit and invest, and as a country of innovation and creativity where the world can come to build the future.

With the deadline to the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals just five years away, the RSA and UK at Expo 2025 partnership will tackle global issues from inequality to climate change, exploring the progress that has been made and the work still to be done to secure health and wellbeing, peace, justice, and prosperity for communities worldwide.

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