France and Spain rank best in the latest Corporate Women Directors International study of women directors in Fortune Global 200 companies, the biggest in the world, regarding the progress on female top managers. The new report, presented in November 2011 at the Worldbank, ranks France first for the fastest rate of increase, as it moved […]
Germanys blue chips presented their self-commited objectives for increasing the share of women in management at a summit meeting of the DAX 30 with the federal ministers Kristina Schröder, Ursula von der Leyen, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Philipp Rösler. As expected, the individual ambitions vary greatly. However, the Media were barely interested in the public commitments.
In the past years, a significant move has been made towards having more women in management and on executive boards. Female CEOs or company presidents, however, are still a very rare exception. One of the few examples is the current president of SEB Group (Sweden), Annika Falkengren; she has been in this position since 2005. […]
Ranstad Italia is running the first (by their own account) and hence unique Italian programme dedicated to the placement of employees with a disability, called ‘Hopportunities’. In Italy, similar to many other European countries, there is a legal requirement to employ people with a disability following a scaled quota system. According to the regulatory framework
One out of every six people in the world — or some 1 billion people — has a disability. Between 785 and 975 million of them are estimated to be of working age, but according to expert analysis most do not work. People with intellectual disability are reported to make up one per cent of […]
An overwhelming majority of Finns say that Finland is at the very least a fairly racist country. Two thirds of the nation feel that there is a large or at least a moderate amount of racism in Finland. In spite of this, only 2% recognise or admit to being very racist, and 12% say that […]
Zum „Tag der Gehörlosen“ brüskierten sich Christine Lüders, Leiterin der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes, und Hubert Hüppe, der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für die Belange behinderter Menschen, über die mangelnde Barrierefreiheit in deutschen Fernseh-programmen.
Dass die Grundvorausstetzungen für die Partizipation von Frauen in verschiedenen Ländern unterschiedlich sind, ist angesichts kultureller, rechtlicher und gesellschaftlicher Besonderheiten offensichtlich. Aber in welchem Land haben Frauen die besten Lebensbedingungen?
Wirtschaft und Mensch – diese Kombination mutet meist weichgespült und eso-ethisch an, und alles, was sozial oder nachhaltig klingt, hat seit vielen Jahren seinen festen Platz in der Welt des Management: in der karitativen Hygiene-Ecke.
Wie erfolgreich Diversity Strategien sein können wenn sie die nötige Unterstützung des Vorstands erhalten und Vielfalt als Wettbewerbsvorteil positioniert wird, zeigt die Renault-Nissan-Allianz. Als Premium Partner des diesjährigen „Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society“ veröffentlichten die Unternehmen aktuelle Zahlen verbunden mit deutlichen Statements.
