Ten years after reaching a cooperation agreement, IOM and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, have endorsed an updated agreement to address current global challenges on migration issues. The agreement particularly focuses on promoting the human rights of migrants and on combating sexual violence, with special emphasis on migrant girls and women.
The Pakistani parliament will consider and likely approve a bill that would ease overly strict restrictions applied under Islamic law that make it nearly impossible to prove a woman has been raped. Under the Hadood Ordinance, developed by the former dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, rape victims are convicted of adultery unless they have […]
On 16 August, a Czech district court started dealing with what is probably the first complaint of gender discrimination in the Czech labour market. Filed by economist Marie Causevicova, 51, against her employer, the Prazska teplarenska heating utility company. She accused the company of
According to data released in late July by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women do 63 percent of household work. While women dedicate an average of almost 16 hours per week to household tasks such as cleaning and preparing food, men’s contributions add up to less than ten hours weekly.
Wenn man einem Spot des Telekommunikationsanbieters “O2” glauben darf, müssen Frauen die Genion-Flatrate lieben, so wie Veronica Ferres. Sie telefoniert morgens imBademantel nach dem Aufstehen, mittags in Freizeitkleidung und abends vorm Dinner im Ballkleid.
Romano Prodi’s victory in the Italian elections a few moths ago is a positive step in the acceptance of Italian gay, lesbian, and transgender population. The Prodi-led centre-left coalition included five lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people elected as members of the Italian parliament. In this case,
Addressing an audience of senior executives from all over Europe at the second annual “Women in Leadership” conference held this year in Geneva on 17 and 18 June, Niall Fitzgerald, KBE, Chairman of Unilever and Vice-Chairman of The Conference Board, referred to a study completed 25 years ago which listed several feminine qualities that served […]
Age discrimination is not only widespread in the workplace, but is shot through with inconsistencies. That showed a survey of more than 2,600 managers and personnel professionals commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Six in ten managers reported being a victim of age discrimination
DIVERSITY. Frauen sind so gut ausgebildet wie nie zuvor. Dennoch sind sie in qualifizierter Beschäftigung unterrepräsentiert. Gleichzeitig tun sich viele Männer mit der Doppelrolle des durchsetzungsstarken Kollegen und fürsorglichen Vaters schwer. Der Managementansatz „Diversity“ nimmt beides in den Blick.
eit Jahren rumpelt es in der deutschen Volksseele. Die „harmonischen innerbetriebliche Abläufe“, auf die laut Bundesverband der Freien Berufe (BFB) Personalentscheidungen „in hohem Maße“ ausgerichtet sind, drohen nachhaltig gestört zu werden. Das Schreckgespenst deutscher Verbandsfunktionäre – alles Männer – ist das AGG, das nach langem, gerade für Deutschland unendlich peinlichem Gewürge, auf seine Verkündung wartet.
