“I want to address myself to the women,” Ségolène Royal declared a few days before the elections in France. “I need the women’s vote,” she said,“ it is time to put an end to centuries of injustice, of marginalization.” She has been much criticised by her political antagonists, as well as columnists, for addressing the […]
Migration will not provide a long-term solution to Europe’s ageing crisis. Instead, policymakers must focus on getting people to have more babies while working ‚longer and better‘, business leaders declared at the European Business Summit. Soon, more than half of the European population will be over 40.
In a report based on figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers Monks pay database, women are increasingly leaving senior management positions. The number of female senior managers working in major UK businesses has taken a sharp fall of over 40% in the last five years. In 2002, some 38% of senior manager level posts in the FTSE 350 […]
Weitaus mehr als eine schallende Ohrfeige kassierte die Fernsehzeitschrift „Hörzu“ vor zwei Jahren, als sie ihre Werbekampagne mit dem Spruch „Irgendwann nimmt man nicht mehr irgendwas“ startete. Mit dem ersten Motiv traten die Hamburger werbewirksam ins Fettnäpfchen: ein majestätisch blickender Geschäftsmann hielt eine exotische Schönheit in seinen Armen, klein, dunkelhäutig, folgsam. Was als Dialog zwischen […]
Eine Frauenquote? In der Agentur „uphoff pr“ könnte man über eine Männerquote nachdenken. Elf Frauen arbeiten in der Marburger Agentur, acht von ihnen sind Mütter. Wie sie den Betrieb und ihre Familien vereinbaren? „Oft muss man ganz schön jonglieren“, sagt Unternehmensgründerin und Geschäftsführerin Dr. Karin Uphoff. Doch die sechsfache Mutter hat in den vergangenen vier […]
Bildung bietet Chancen –solange man nicht gegen Vorurteile kämpfen muss. Der Artikel von Anne Haeming auf Spiegel Online zeigt, wie ein Kopftuch zur unangepassten Karrierebremse wird. Zum Artikel
A white woman who claims she was racially harassed by „jokes“ insulting black people has won the right to take her case to an employment tribunal. Pat Gravell, 45, says that her former employer did nothing to stamp out the racist emails and text messages.
Indonesia. The moment we alighted in Bali, the sweet smell of incense penetrated the air and we felt ourselves in another world. In comparison to Australia, Indonesia is replete with finesse and grace: decorative temples pepper the landscape and flowery offerings to the Gods line the foot paths around the island.
Spain has enacted a new sex equality bill which will enforce quotas for women in companies and on electoral lists. The gender equality bill includes parity on the electoral lists and stipulates that by 2015, women should occupy 40 percent of the seats on the boards of the country’s biggest corporations.
Hundreds of thousands of men face salary cuts of up to £15,000 to fund increases for women staff. Equal pay claims for up to 1.5 million public sector workers could cost the taxpayer more than £10 billion and mean that hundreds of thousands of men will lose up to 40 per cent of their salary.
