Including shift workers in D&I programmes, addressing Unconscious Biases practically with management teams and integrating Diversity in HR-tools and in everyday work reality. What sounds like a miracle agenda happened at Johnson & Johnson in Switzerland, within a space of two years.
Sticky floors have become the evil brother of glass ceilings for women in the workplace. They describe mechanisms that make it more difficult for women than for men to leave their current positions in a upward direction. New evidence for this has now been added to the body of research
Gender and other stereotypes are formed during childhood. Therefore, toys and emojis that promoted traditional roles or assumptions have been criticised for long. Now, several new developments occur.
If you feel you need to reshape your Gender Diversity strategy and want to make sure top management is not only on board but actively engaged, why don’t you run workshops on the business case & strategy design with your first levels? One large country organisation of a global firm did that and received detailed […]
When, in the course of our lives, gender stereotypes are formed? And how strong can they be at an early childhood stage? RedrawTheBalance is an impactful exercise and online video by the UK charity ‘Inspiring the Future’. If only it was replicated in many more places…!
While the World Health Organisation is still debating this, Denmark has once more assumed a pioneering role and removes the remaining stigma from trans people. In Norway, a new law on fast and transparent legal gender recognition is pending for approval.
The European Union’s Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has introduced a new online resource for Gender Statistics. It aims at serving as a comprehensive knowledge centre for gender statistics on various aspects of (in)equality between women and men. Initial tests show that the focus of the database is more on general demographics and public policy […]
Most States around the Persian Gulf receive publicity for fundamental issues with many dimensions of Diversity. It is there for notable that recently disability, LGTB and – more substantially – gender have been publicly addressed.
Fathers working full-time get paid a fifth more than men with similar jobs who don’t have children, according to a new report published by the TUC, an umbrella organisation representing 52 trade union in the UK. Working mothers statistically earn less that working women without children.
A new web portal offering resources on gender and science, covering multiple interest areas and resource types, will be formally launched on 21st April 2016. The GenPORT (www.genderportal.eu) Internet site aims at pooling information on projects, events, organisations and individuals involved in gender in a science context.
