Seven years after the 2004 enlargement of the EU, a new European Commission study looks at the economic and labour market impact of east-west labour mobility flows in recent years. The study puts a main focus on mobility’s impact on labour markets, the macro-economy and human capital issues such as brain drain and down-schilling of […]
France and Spain rank best in the latest Corporate Women Directors International study of women directors in Fortune Global 200 companies, the biggest in the world, regarding the progress on female top managers. The new report, presented in November 2011 at the Worldbank, ranks France first for the fastest rate of increase, as it moved […]
Germanys blue chips presented their self-commited objectives for increasing the share of women in management at a summit meeting of the DAX 30 with the federal ministers Kristina Schröder, Ursula von der Leyen, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Philipp Rösler. As expected, the individual ambitions vary greatly. However, the Media were barely interested in the public commitments.
In the past years, a significant move has been made towards having more women in management and on executive boards. Female CEOs or company presidents, however, are still a very rare exception. One of the few examples is the current president of SEB Group (Sweden), Annika Falkengren; she has been in this position since 2005. […]
Ranstad Italia is running the first (by their own account) and hence unique Italian programme dedicated to the placement of employees with a disability, called ‘Hopportunities’. In Italy, similar to many other European countries, there is a legal requirement to employ people with a disability following a scaled quota system. According to the regulatory framework
One out of every six people in the world — or some 1 billion people — has a disability. Between 785 and 975 million of them are estimated to be of working age, but according to expert analysis most do not work. People with intellectual disability are reported to make up one per cent of […]
An overwhelming majority of Finns say that Finland is at the very least a fairly racist country. Two thirds of the nation feel that there is a large or at least a moderate amount of racism in Finland. In spite of this, only 2% recognise or admit to being very racist, and 12% say that […]
The European Commission supports an EU-Level exchange platform between organisations promoting and implementing national Diversity Charters. In this context, the conference “Business Innovation and Creation through Diversity” took place in Brussels on 30th November. The conference explored the dynamic approach of Diversity Charters in Europe promoting Diversity in the workplace, examining the role of SMEs, […]
While The Washington Post informs its readers about “What men can learn from women about leadership in the 21st century”, the International Herald Tribune published a special report about “German women boxed out of work”. With colourful pictures of traditional family models and detailed information about what goes wrong in Germany so that the share […]
There is progress in the area of work-life-integration, says a current study of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), but the distribution of an effective balance between work and private life remains unequal across the two genders. The pan-European research reveals that women continue to be the main stakeholders for raising children in most […]
