Courage, persistence and a good portion of innovative potential – being self-employed demands certain features, especially within an economy witnessing unemployment rates up to 25%. The Spanish labour market was severely affected by the worldwide economic crisis and all those Spaniards owning their own businesses were even more endangered, struggling alone against the crisis. In […]
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) published a discussion paper on presumable answers to biased Gender perceptions that still hinder talented men and especially women to show their abilities and follow their individual career path. The report starts by mentioning the numerous stereotypes, like
The need for clear leadership, including sense making, direction (and target) setting and role modelling has been found critical for the success of Diversity initiatives in many studies. To date, however, the CEOs’ perspectives have not been examined by research: how do they justify the slow pace of change and what drivers for gender equality […]
The Swedish government considers forcing corporate boards to appoint more women after finding voluntary programmes failed to bring about greater gender equality. The Swedish Minister of Finance, Anders Borg, announced a one-year-deadline for all companies to modify their recruitment processes. If gender equality will not improve within this period, Sweden will “gradually move towards being […]
Flexible working is one of the bestselling employment features companies can offer their employees as an increasing amount of surveys demonstrates. Flexible employers score higher on the labour markets and can more easily attract the right talent. However, the reality still holds a lot of room for improvement, the new Working Families report “Time, Health […]
The Republic of South Africa was the first country to ban discrimination based on all the core dimensions of Diversity, gender, race, age, disability, religion and sexual orientation, not just in the Civil Code but in their Constitution. This is one of the many enduring elements supporting diversity, respect and inclusion which the grand personality […]
The past 50 years have changed the relations between both genders a lot. Along the way, women had to demand their equal share in society, economics and politics, and this so-called emancipation has brought a lot of positive aspects for everyone. But the term emancipation is used as combat term at times, and some men […]
Credit Suisse has launched a LGBT Equality Index, making it “the first index to track the equity performance of companies with LGBT-friendly policies,” according to the bank’s announcement. The pursuit of profit is not the only reason for the new index. The bank also wants to raise awareness for the need to recognise sexual minorities […]
The EU member state Hungary serves as an example for the so called demographic transition. Fortunately, Hungarian women have good chances of getting quality education and building their careers. In the meantime, however, the Hungarian population shrunk by about 2% over the last decade and the birth rates are still decreasing.
Combining the fight against climate change with the advancement of female participation, the new initiative “Women in Solar” sounds like a masterpiece in this respect. The initiative is aimed at engaging more women into roles within engineering and encourages female engineers to take up a career in the renewable energy sector. And to make the […]
