Gender bildet nicht nur einen Ursprung des Konzeptes Diversity, es war über 20 Jahre hinweg stets das prominenteste aller Vielfaltsthemen. Im Kontext von Diversity hatte sich die Dimension „Geschlecht“ aus der feministischen Ecke heraus in die wirtschaftliche Realität hinein emanzipiert: Die Meinungsführerinnen freundeten sich nach anfänglicher Abwehr damit an, Teil eines Business Case zu werden […]
Männlich, weiß, heterosexuell – diese Attribute finden sich um Umfeld der Naturwissenschaften nur zu oft. Auch die Chemieindustrie weiß um diese Situation. „Auf die wirklich wichtige Frage kommen sie aber gar nicht“, sagt Stuber. Nämlich die, zu überlegen, warum denn eigentlich keine Frau, kein BWLer, kein Türke unter ihnen ist,“ so Stuber in einem Infoblatt […]
After 15 years of European Diversity models, many wonder what organisations have achieved in D&I and where they are heading. With the significant expansion of the number of diversity programmes, the immense renewed public attention and also with many new stakeholders involved, the dynamics in the field have changed significantly. The multitude of influences and […]
A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country. The report contains graphic warnings that letting women drive would increase prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce.
Austria took a step to end a decades-long rift with the country’s Slovenian minority this November, when parliament passed a law to double the number of communities allowed to use bilingual city signage, mainly in the region of Carinthia. In the future, Slovenes (Austrian citizens) of 164 cities will be able to read the name […]
Changes in workplace practise can positively impact and improve the overall performance of employees and productivity of a company, according to new research from Eurofound, the Dublin-based EU agency for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Seven years after the 2004 enlargement of the EU, a new European Commission study looks at the economic and labour market impact of east-west labour mobility flows in recent years. The study puts a main focus on mobility’s impact on labour markets, the macro-economy and human capital issues such as brain drain and down-schilling of […]
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. […]
