UN Women 2021 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards:
Meet the National Winners
THAILAND
We are excited to announce the winners of the first-ever UN Women 2021 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards!
Big congratulations to all the winners who have committed themselves to advancing gender equality and women's economic empowerment. These gender champions from different countries, sectors, and fields are acknowledged respectively for their outstanding Leadership Commitment, Youth Leadership, Gender-inclusive Workplace, Gender-responsive Marketplace, Community and Industry Engagement, and Transparency & Reporting.
*The UN Women Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards represents recognition of exemplary company efforts for gender equality and is limited to a designated category and a specific location and time period. Awarded organizations, alongside their products and services, receiving awards are not endorsed or affiliated with UN Women or WeEmpowerAsia and being recognized as an Awardee does not constitute a partnership. Claims, statements, or endorsements made by awardees are solely those of the individual or organization and do not represent official policies or positions of UN Women.
Winners
Jittarat Tantasirin founded Atta Autohaus, a Mercedes-Benz automotive dealer, with a vision to create a platform to incubate leaders who can promote diversity and inclusion and set up diversity responsive policies within her organization. Jittirat has been invited as a guest speaker at several leadership and sustainability conferences and has been appointed as a member of committees on citizen participation and gender responsiveness in business practices. Furthermore, she created an alliance called “Future Leaders” with other organizations to encourage dialogue amongst leaders on gender inclusiveness, Global Citizenship and 21st century skills.
Net Supatravanij is the Co-Founder of ila, a social enterprise focused on bringing diversity and inclusion to the workplace and empowering gender-based violence survivors. She is the creator of ALLY: a mobile application that aims to turn local stores into safe spaces and bystanders into allies against domestic abuse. ila was selected to exhibit at the UN Women Asia Pacific for Beijing 25+ Conference in 2019 and Net was invited to speak by the UN Women's Asia Pacific on the International Women's Day in 2020.
1st Runners Up
Tibor Pandi, Country Head and Citi Country Officer at Citibank N.A., has shown commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion through various policies and mechanisms. Key actions include promoting gender inclusive recruitment, enhancing women’s representation in leadership roles and encouraging networking and educational activities on gender diversity in the organization. He has also taken the Business Sponsor Role in Citi Thailand Affinity, including the Women Network and PRIDE Network.
Tasted Better is an innovative food research company. The company has clear policies on promoting gender equality in the workplace which is reinforced by its leaders, including Perada Suponpun (CEO of Tasted Better). Tasted Better’s gender equality principles emphasizes inclusive recruitment, equal treatment and benefits for all employees including training and employees’ promotion. Perada also initiated a community engagement campaign to mobilize funding to support research and development of COVID-19 vaccines by offering some of its profits to the medical institutions, reaching more than 1 million people on social media.
2nd Runners Up
HaadThip Public Company is a sparkling beverage manufacturer. Maj. Gen Patchara Rattakul, CEO of HaadThip, has set up employment policies that promote a gender-responsive workplace through recruitment, equal pay, welfare for maternity leave, training and promotion of women to management positions. HaadThip Public Company is listed as one of the companies in the Thailand Sustainable Investment (THSI) and the ESG 100 lists by the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was awarded for being a ‘role model’ for Human Rights 2020, received the “Goodness” Reward for three consecutive years, and is certified under the Thai Labour Standard Certification by Department of Labour Protection.