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.
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 […]
After a long history of programs promoting diversity in the US, President Obama recently issued an executive order to increase workforce diversity in th Public Sector, thus sending another strong message about his commitment to Diversity. Government agencies are now required to develop plans for reaching specific goals aligned to the executive order. Although not […]
The improvement of equality between men and women has become a top priority for many governments around the world. To assess the situation of women in terms of discrimination in Portugal, the Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights prepared a shadow report for the 42nd Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women […]
Following her strong statements about potential quota for women on executive and supervisory boards, Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Justice, announced a Europe-wide voluntary initiative, that aims at increasing the representation of women on corporate boards of publicly listed companies.
After having been developed since 2004, the WHO has introduced its guidelines for Community-based rehabilitation for Africa. The guidelines are the result of joint work of several organisations including UNESCO, ILO and IDDC. They offer a multi-sectoral approach to community-based rehabilitation that encompasses all levels of governmental institutions, civic society organisations, as well as individuals […]
According to the latest European Commission Staff Working Document the European Union with its 500 million-plus citizens is not only growing older, but is becoming a lot more diverse at the same time. The paper states that the EU-27 member states are home to 20 million non-EU nationals, while there are also 10 million EU-nationals […]
In January 2011, the French government passed a gender quota law for corporate boards, which will become legally binding in 2017. Medium and large companies are now required to fulfill 40% women in their administrative and supervisory boards. Board decisions will still be valid for companies which do not meet the quota, but board election […]
At the end of the first year of the EU project “Support for Voluntary Initiatives Promoting Diversity at the Workplace Across the EU”, a high level event brought together key stakeholders from Europe to discuss milestones and directions in the field.
