This year, The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) launched a new annual awards programme. The awards ceremony, in October 2007, highlighted the innovative ways employers are tackling age discrimination in the workplace. In the six months since the award programme was launched, over 45 different policies and age initiatives were entered.
Auf dem „Euroforum“ hielt Diversity-Experte Michael Stuber einen Vortrag über die Vielfalt der Generationen und die Nutzung ihrer Potenziale. „ALTERS – DIVERSITY – MANAGEMENT. Synergieeffekte: Vielfalt der Generationen, Vielfalt der Belegschaft, Vielfalt der Stärken.“
The International Center for Black Women’s Perspectives (AFRA) is taking the European Year for Equal Opportunities for All as a challenge to organise the 1. Black European Women’s Congress from September 27-29 2007 in Vienna Austria.
As Diversity becomes more and more relevant three of the world’s largest financial institutions, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are seeking Diversity information from their legal advisors. Legal firms who are pitching for business are expected to inform the banks on diversity statistics relating to their employees’ backgrounds.
For the first time in history, the group of people over 65 (almost 500 million) outnumbers the number of children under the age of five. The report, Why Population Aging Matters: A Global Perspective, predicts: “Societal aging may affect economic growth, the sustainability of families, the ability of states and communities to provide resources for […]
ForscherInnen aus Bochum und Dortmund haben das Ruhrgebiet als „demografisches Experimentierfeld“ markiert. „Zukunft des Alterns“, kurz ZudA, heißt das Projekt, das die Chancen einer alternden Gesellschaft ausloten will. Bald soll es einen eigenen Studiengang geben, und das Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitäten Bochum und Dortmund zum interdisziplinären Kompetenzzentrum für den demografischen Wandel werden.
Tintin is under investigation by the Belgium’s state prosecutor after a Congolese student, Mondondo Bienvenu, took legal action claiming Hergé’s controversial Tintin In The Congo “constitutes an insult for all the Congolese” and should be banned. He says, “it is propaganda for colonialism.”
Most people generally imagine older citizens to be living in smaller, more rural areas, but a new study shows that big cities are increasingly harbouring retirement communities. Professor Victor G. Rodwin studied neighbourhoods in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo and found many places where almost 20 percent of the population is 65 years or […]
A report by National Savings and Investment, says that one fourth of women in the UK are expected to be the household’s breadwinner by the year 2030. For the moment, it found that women are increasingly contributing towards the household income and taking control of financial decisions, a dramatic shift from the 1950s.
Air travel will have gotten easier for disabled passengers in the EU with a passing of a new law to protect their rights. It is now categorically illegal to deny an elderly or disabled passenger to fly anywhere within the EU. Next year the law will expand to ensure passengers with reduced mobility not be […]
