Stern students attend UN Women’s HeforShe Summit, form Gender Equality Council on campus

By Kimberly Zhou, Isabel Becerra and Adhya Singh, NYU Stern Council on Gender Equality

To be respectfully disruptive means to challenge the status quo.

This was the message that NYU Stern Community members remembered most when we attended the HeForShe Summit, UN Women’s flagship event during UN General Assembly week. An initiative of UN Women, HeForShe was launched nine years ago as an invitation for men to stand in solidarity with women in pursuit of gender equality. It was a high-level gathering of government leaders, business executives, university students, and community members. The most ambitious of these leaders have joined the HeForShe Alliance as champions, having committed to advancing progress on gender equality over a five-year period.