In the latest salary survey by the UK-based magazine ‘Financial Director’, analysts have discovered that the pay gap between male and female finance directors has widened over the past two years. Women are now earning 68 percent of the average remuneration package of their male counter-parts – two percent less than the numbers in 2008. […]
In the recent study ‘Millennials in the Workplace: A Communication Perspective on Millennials, Organisational Relationships and Perform-ance’, Professor Karen Myers and Kamyab Sadaghiani from the University of California, Santa Barbara investigate the impact of communicated values and expectations of Gen Y. Many ‘Millennials’ have distinctive characteristics that may make interacting with them different from with […]
The fourth annually Diversity Conference in Barcelona focused on Global culture and transformation and its meaning for new approaches of Diversity Consulting. From 23rd till 24th February a handful qualified speakers informed and discussed about the integration of Diversity into business as usual. “If the only thing required to increase Diversity were the business case […]
The recent heated discussions over quota reignited by EU Commission Internal Market & Services Member Barnier reveal the true nature of Diversity: It is an emotional, personal and political issue in any sense of the words. Forget about the former choice of ‘social’ or ‘economic’ approaches. We are (finally) down to the pure power play […]
Dass jüngeren Menschen der Umgang mit interaktiven Produkten leichter fällt als älteren, ist eine weit verbreitete Annahme. Die User Interface Design GmbH und die Hochschule Medien in Stuttgart untersuchten nun in einer Studie den Umgang jüngerer und älterer Nutzer mit interaktiven Alltagsgeräten und dem Multitouch-Tisch Surface, um herauszufinden ob es tatsächlich spezieller Produkte für Senioren […]
Kunstgeschichtlich betrachtet ist die Pop Art eine Männerdomäne – Künstler wie Andy Warhol oder Roy Lichtenstein gelangten damit zu Weltruhm, das Frauenbild war zu seinen Hochzeiten in den 60er Jahren stark patriarchalisch geprägt. Eine Revision der Pop Art hat sich die Kunsthalle Wien mit der Ausstellung POWER UP – Female Pop Art zum Ziel gemacht.
In order to research the social reality of discrimination in Germany, the Free University of Berlin undertook an empirical study, conducted by Prof. Dr. Hubert Rottleuthner and Prof. Dr. Matthias Mahlmann (Institute of Law at the University of Zürich), with the theme “Reality of Discrimination in Germany – Assumptions and Facts”. In order to gain […]
According to a survey conducted by the French organisation Liberation and the economists from the University of Evry, Thierry Laurent and Ferhat Mihoubi, being gay in the workplace has an effect on wages. In the first French study of its kind, the report shows that gay men earn 6.5% less than their heterosexual colleagues in […]
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2010 was released last month with overall encouraging news on equality between men and women in 134 countries, representing over 93% of the world’s population. The countries were assessed on how well they divide resources and opportunities amongst male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels […]
Die Forschungsergebnisse einer zweijährigen Projektarbeit über die geschlechtsspezifische Situation von Frauen und Männern in privatwirtschaftlichen Betrieben präsentiert die Projektgruppe GiB der Hans Böckler Stiftung in dem Band „Geschlechterungleichheiten im Betrieb – Arbeit, Entlohnung und Gleichstellung in der Privatwirtschaft“.
