As Senator Galina Karelova, Chair of the Eurasian Women's Forum Council, noted, the first forum held in St. Petersburg demonstrated that the northern women's community is an effective resource for regional development. She added that it is necessary to move beyond formal participation to truly incorporating women's recommendations into regional policy planning.
The first forum resulted in new professional standards ("chum worker" and "livestock breeder"), successful business projects (development of hectares, large ethnic complexes, and industries), an improved demographic situation, an increase in the number of doctors (more than 5,000 women work as doctors, cultural workers, and educators), and management personnel (52 women were trained under the "Woman Leader: Naval Cities" program, 17 of whom moved to the North from other regions, and women's teams were formed in all naval cities of Russia).