A female Muslim teacher was suspended by a Dutch school for refusing to shake hands with men. The management at Vader Rijn College asked the Equality Commission to examine the case to confirm whether it had acted correctly. The school teaches pre-vocational secondary education.
More and more women are starting new organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Women’s entrepreneurship is expanding around the world. They represent more than one-third of all people involved in entrepreneurial activities and are likely to play an even greater role when informal sectors are considered.
The Latvian Parliament voted to support an amendment to the country’s Labour Law to explicitly ban sexual orientation discrimination in employment. Before the decision, Latvia was, according to ILGA-Europe, the only member state of the European Union which failed to comply with provisions of the 2000 EU employment equality directive requiring EU member states to […]
HP has been developing and implementing strategies to be a leader in the advancement of women in the technology business. The programmes seem to be successful, as approximately a third of their global executives are women and they are looking to increase their numbers at all levels of the organisation.
According to a report by the European Commission, 29 per cent of those employed as researchers are women. In the business and enterprise sector, the number is a dismal 18 per cent. Moreover, women are more likely to work in firms with lower R&D expenditures.
Women with dependent children are less likely than those without to be employed. Based on UK statistics, fifty-six percent of mothers with children under the age of 5 are working. The number jumps to 77 per cent when the youngest child is aged 11 to 15. Conversely, men with dependent children are more likely than […]
“Sex sells” – diese vermeintlich goldene Werberegel ist längst überholt. Das beweist der Seifenhersteller “Dove” bereits seit zwei Jahren.
Unternehmen müssen „demographieschlau“ handeln, schreibt Astrid Funck in der “Brand eins” Serie „Soziale Innovation Arbeit und Leben“. Bedeutet konkret: Unternehmen müssen neben dem demographischen Wandel auch den Wertetrend der Gesellschaft bedenken, um weiterhin wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben.
Erschienen in Newsletter „Gleichstellung Online“, Dashöfer 9/2006Ein großer Teil der Führungskräfte in der Privatwirtschaft lebt in partnerschaftlichen Familienfor-men, verheiratet oder unverheiratet. Diese Partnerschaften gestalten sich allerdings bei Frauen und Männern ganz unterschiedlich: Die Partnerinnen von Männern in Führungspositionen sind mehr-heitlich nicht erwerbstätig oder haben eine Teilzeitbeschäftigung. Bisher gilt noch immer: Kinder stellen für erwerbstätige Mütter […]
Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. The Campaign aims to collect one million signatures to demand changes to discriminatory laws against women and is a follow-up effort to the peaceful protest of the same aim, which took place a few weeks […]
