Aims and Objectives

1.	To work for:
	•	equal opportunities and status for women in the economic, civil and political life in all countries
	•	the removal of discrimination;
2.	To encourage women and girls to:
	•	acquire education, occupational training and advanced education
	•	use their occupational capacities: and intelligence for the advantage of others as well as themselves;
3.	To improve the position of women in business, trade and the professions, and in the economic life of their countries;
4.	To stimulate and encourage in women a realization and acceptance of their responsibilities to the community, locally, nationally and internationally;
5	To work for high standards of service in business and the professions;
6.	To promote world-wide friendship, co- operation and understanding between business and professional women;
7.	To collect and present the views of women to world organizations and agencies;
8.	To create a powerful lobby for promoting women's issues;
9.	To help implement the vision of the founder Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips.
BPW International - Activities
Initiates and promotes:
•	legislative action to press governments for the ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW);
•	projects and programs designed to assist women by providing credit facilities, training and employment schemes;
•	equal opportunities in the financial and newly developing fields of work.
Coordinates and develops:
•	regional contacts between women of similar culture and language;
•	twinning links between BPW Clubs worldwide;
•	a strong network structure among the membership.
Establishes and organizes:
•	committees at the international level in a number of areas:
	1.	Business, Trade & Employment
	2.	Environment
	3.	Public Relations
	4.	Young BPW
	5.	Membership
	6.	Agriculture
	7.	Finance
	8.	Health
	9.	Legislation
	10.	Projects
	11.	United Nations - Status of Women