Er poltert, pöbelt, polemisiert gegen Frauen und hält den jüdischen Bevölkerungsanteil für das größte Problem seines Landes: Borat Sagdiyev, kasachischer Fernsehjournalist und höchstoffizieller Botschafter seines Landes für die Vereinigten Staaten.
Immer mehr Frauen wollen sich selbstständig machen. Mehr als 140.000 Existenzgründerinnen nahmen im vergangenen Jahr den Rat der Industrie- und Handelskammern in Anspruch, das sind fast zehn Prozent mehr als im Vorjahr.
A British Airways employee who was banned from openly wearing a small Christian cross fought for her job at a meeting with airline management.Nadia Eweida, 55, a check-in worker, spoke of her dismay after managers insisted she remove or cover up her small cross. When Ms Eweida refused she was sent home on unpaid leave.
A female Muslim teacher was suspended by a Dutch school for refusing to shake hands with men. The management at Vader Rijn College asked the Equality Commission to examine the case to confirm whether it had acted correctly. The school teaches pre-vocational secondary education.
More and more women are starting new organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Women’s entrepreneurship is expanding around the world. They represent more than one-third of all people involved in entrepreneurial activities and are likely to play an even greater role when informal sectors are considered.
The Latvian Parliament voted to support an amendment to the country’s Labour Law to explicitly ban sexual orientation discrimination in employment. Before the decision, Latvia was, according to ILGA-Europe, the only member state of the European Union which failed to comply with provisions of the 2000 EU employment equality directive requiring EU member states to […]
HP has been developing and implementing strategies to be a leader in the advancement of women in the technology business. The programmes seem to be successful, as approximately a third of their global executives are women and they are looking to increase their numbers at all levels of the organisation.
According to a report by the European Commission, 29 per cent of those employed as researchers are women. In the business and enterprise sector, the number is a dismal 18 per cent. Moreover, women are more likely to work in firms with lower R&D expenditures.
Women with dependent children are less likely than those without to be employed. Based on UK statistics, fifty-six percent of mothers with children under the age of 5 are working. The number jumps to 77 per cent when the youngest child is aged 11 to 15. Conversely, men with dependent children are more likely than […]
Neulich beim Einkauf, zehn Leute in der Schlange, mein Blick wandert über das Förderband. An der Kasse lese ich auf einem Schild: „Um Missverständnisse mit der Kassiererin zu vermeiden, legen Sie bitte alle Waren auf das Förderband“. Mein Blick wandert über die Kasse hinweg. Dort sitzt Thorsten, 28 Jahre alt, ausgebildeter Einzelhandelskaufmann. Mann? Stand da […]
