If you think women have “arrived” think again. Here are the amazing thoughts of Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management at the London Business School and award-winning author (www.lyndagratton.com). This formed part of a February 2010 Economist magazine debate on the progress of women. As the academic director of the Centre for Women in Business at […]
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According to experts, it’s the sticky floor that is really holding women back, According to Londa Schiebinger, Professor at Stanford University, Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and leading international authority on gender, we need to free women from housework, to allow them to reach their full potential. Here are some of her
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Here some clips from a great Globe & Mail Editorial on women (from 11 Jan 2010). The column suggests that women still have a long way to go and recommends that leaders such as CEOs take up the personal task of advancing as many women as possible. It’s hard not to feel wistful in 2010
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A jury made punitive ward of $250 million against pharmaceutical giant Novartis in May. This was the largest award ever in a gender discrimination case, involving allegations of 5600 women over five years. The award will likely rise up to near $1billion when the court next deals with back pay and compensation. The evidence was disturbing and alarming, showing that executives at Novartis not only consistently discriminated
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Tracy Sherlock (Vancouver Sun) reported this week that women are still significantly under-represented and misrepresented in news media coverage despite some recent improvements . The Global Media Monitoring Project discovered the following: 76% of people reported in the news are men women are mostly used as providers of personal accounts and rarely as knowledgeable experts 32% of all stories
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Daphne Bramham (Vancouver Sun) writes today about the sorry state of women in the media. She quotes Rosalind Gill, a professor from Kings College, London and speaker at the conference: Sex/Money/Media here in Vancouver. Gill suggests that all of the progress made for women in the 1970′s and 1980′s are going to be lost. Research shows that women in
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If you women really want to be successful, do not get married and do not have children. Or so suggests a recent New York Times article. According to the article, the last three men nominated to the US Supreme Court have all been married and, among them, have seven children. The last three women —
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The Economist magazine staged an amazing debate recently and invited some of the smartest women on earth to talk about “whether women in the developed world have ever had it so good.” Here are some clips from Irene Lang, president and CEO of Catalyst, a leading research organisation on women and business. “George Orwell said,
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The New York Times reports (January 18, 2010) that German women are now more able to rise as the traditional half day school day is replaced with full time care. Here is an excerpt from the article by Katrina Bennhold. “The half-day school system survived feudalism, the rise and demise of Hitler’s mother cult, the
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A new book by professor Elisabeth Kelan of Kings College in London suggests that discrimination against women has gone underground. Kelan’s book, “Performing Gender at Work” (Palgrave McMillan) shows that gender bias has become more subtle, harder to spot and tougher to deal with. This is partially because many people think that the issue of
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