Die geplante Einführung einer 30%-Frauenquote für Aufsichtsräte durch die aktuelle Bundesregierung hat in der Vergangenheit zu heftigen medialen Diskussionen geführt. Noch im letzten Newsletter berichteten wir über einen Schlagabtausch zum Thema zwischen Monika Schulz-Strelow, Präsidentin der FidAr, und dem Headhunter und Firmengründer Heiner Thorborg.
Es ist ein halbes Jahr her, dass sich eine Mehrheit der Schweizerinnen und Schweizer in einer aufsehenerregenden Abstimmung für die sogenannte Masseneinwanderungsinitiative der Schweizerischen Volkspartei (SVP) entschied. Die Abstimmung wurde besonders in Europa als Misstrauensvotum gegen Einwanderer verstanden, als Rückschritt für das Einwanderungsland Schweiz und als ein Bruch mit Werten, dessen Folgen nicht absehbar waren.
Die Europäische Union ist ein in vielerlei Hinsicht einzigartiges politisches Konstrukt. Ausgestattet mit dem einzigen supranationalen Parlament, einer technokratisch arbeitenden Regierung und 28 Mitgliedsnationen mit insgesamt 24 verschiedenen Amtssprachen. Bei der weltweit zweitgrößten demokratischen Wahl (nach der indischen Parlamentswahl) waren im Mai dieses Jahres rund 400 Millionen Europäerinnen und Europäer aufgerufen, ihr neues Parlament zu […]
As a consequence of Barilla’s chairman, Guido Barilla, making homophobic statements during a live interview the concrete damage of his words become evident. He said he would “never do [a commercial] with a homosexual family” and if gays did not like this, they could buy somebody else’s pasta.. Since then,
The annual International Women’s Day is an excellent opportunity to raise awareness for positive developments, best-practices and still persisting barriers in the field of Gender. In March 2014, more than 1,300 events were organised by companies, women’s groups, schools, governments, charities and individuals from all around the world, showing the richness and creativity of the […]
The Middle East is known as region with huge economic potential, a wealth of resources and repeating political tensions. However, countries in the Middle East might emerge as a new talent pool, a recent global research study by Towers Watson and Oxford Economics indicates. According to the report ‘Talent 2021’, the Middle East will produce […]
In the European Union a constantly growing group of 80 million people is handicapped, just the same number of people that is living in the most populated EU country, Germany. More than 50% of the disabled Europeans are female, representing 16% of the overall female population in the EU. A report on women with disabilities, […]
Some employees are striving to work longer than regulated by national pension laws. Other employees prefer to quit work earlier, but are obliged to continue working. Individual decisions will become more difficult in future. An increasing life expectancy and falling birth rates in most developed industrial countries force us to work longer than ever before. […]
Presumably few big companies operating in the EMEA region would deny women the talent to lead a company or serve as a CEO. In fact, most companies are verbally active in the field of gender equality, in some countries additionally stimulated by quotas.
Less chances to get a job, lower wages, fewer career perspectives and harassment – discrimination in employment has many faces across Europe. According to a new report by the European Network against Racism (ENAR), ethnic or religious minorities are systematically disadvantaged in European countries. So called third-country nationals, Muslims, Roma, people of colour and especially […]
