Must read. I just saw the new report on gender equality published by PwC. Its called Time to Talk: What Has to Change for Women at Work. It suggests three actions: Transparency around pay and promotion; Strategic support for women including sponsoring women; and a new model for work-life balance that includes parenting time, re-entry programs […]
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The world is facing an acute misuse of talent by not acting faster to tackle gender inequality, which could put economic growth at risk and deprive economies of the opportunity to develop, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016, which is published today. The report is an annual benchmarking exercise that
Gender equality is sliding globally Read More »
The WHO (World Health Organisation) just published research on domestic violence. Almost 40% of all women killed worldwide were killed by an intimate partner. A lover! A husband! Nearly 600million women live in countries where domestic violence is not even a crime! It’s time to name the problem for what it is. It is not about women, it
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Ninety percent of the women surveyed said, yes, there is a need for companies to increase the number of women in senior management. But only 42 percent of the men surveyed agreed! http://www.conferenceboard.ca/press/newsrelease/13-05-15/he_says_she_says_gender_gap_persists_in_attitudes_toward_women_s_advancement_in_the_workplace.aspx
Women, not men think more women are needed at top Read More »
Bewteen 1969 and 2006 about 40 women (low estimate) have been murderd or disappeared on three northern BC highways. Given the low population in these communities it seems very odd that the police (RCMP) have not found a culprit. Not one. So its no surprise when last week Human Rights Watch – an international organisation – wrote a report suggesting
We need to listen when Human Rights Watch find RCMP abusing women Read More »
Here is a recent posting from SLAW: The Library of Parliament has released two background papers respecting parliaments and gender: Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: 1. Advancements in the Workplace [PDF] and Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: 2. The Work of Legislators [PDF]. The papers adopt the Inter-Parliamentary Union (ITU) understanding of a gender-sensitive parliament as: a parliament that responds to
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