A joint report from the CBI employer’s organisation and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) found out that firms that take steps to improve Diversity in the workplace earn real business benefits. Companies who look beyond the “usual suspects” for staff and employ people on the basis of their abilities and potential, regardless of their sex, […]
In January this year Europe’s first gay nursing home opened in Berlin. The groundbreaking project culminates years of planning, fund-raising and public campaigning. Berlin’s mayor, Klaus Wowereit, has backed the project from its beginnings. The four-floor facility is built to accommodate 28 residents in its high-tech rooms with private bathrooms.
This campaign is promoting a Europe-wide petition for a new European Directive to outlaw discrimination. The main aim of this directive is to ban discrimination in access to goods and services on grounds of disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief – areas not currently covered in the EU anti-discrimination directives of many EU […]
The Hampshire police force is committed to welcoming and supporting employees from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. It was awarded for its gay friendly policies and procedures as well as staff support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) police officers and staff by the Hampshire LGBT Resource Group (LGBTRG) which includes […]
Homosexualität ist nicht nur ein Thema für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene. Die Familie darf bei der Aufklärungsarbeit nicht ausgeklammert werden. Besonders in Migrationsfamilien ist dies jedoch häufig noch ein Tabuthema. Genau hier setzt das Handbuch des Familien- und Sozialverein des Lesben- und Schwulenverbandes in Deutschland (LSVD) an. Der Reader ist auf die Praxis und den […]
Natasha Kelly a 34-year-old black German woman is suing her former landlord. In December 2007 he evicted her from an apartment in Osnabrueck/Western Germany because she was black and a single mother. In his eviction notice he wrote: “Some of the other tenants are unhappy about your background and skin colour and your personal situation […]
Metastudie zeigt wirtschaftliche Effekte von Diversity auf Diversity hat sich in Deutschland mittlerweile fest als Managementansatz etabliert. Hatten im Jahr 2000 erst zwei DAX-30 Unternehmen einen oder mehrere Diversity Manager, sind es heute bereits mehr als die Hälfte. Aber was bringt Diversity Management konkret? Welche empirisch messbaren Erfolge erzielen heterogene Teams und wie wirkt sich […]
Finanzstarke Karrierefrau oder metrosexueller Topkonsument – wer kauft was, warum, wie oft, wo und wann? Firmen, die ihr Marktpotenzial erhöhen wollen, müssen ihre Marktforschung und Produktentwicklung gezielt auf die Geschlechter ausrichten. So lautet die Kernthese von Eva Kreienkamp in ihrem aktuell erschienenen Buch „Gender- Marketing“. Die Autorin sensibilisiert für Geschlechterunterschiede und gibt Anregungen für eine […]
A Stockholm court ruling decided that homosexual citizens cannot be prevented from purchasing dogs in Sweden. The court confirmed an earlier district verdict in favour of a lesbian who had sought damages from a dog breeder who refused to sell her a puppy because of her sexual preference. The dog owner has to pay the […]
The European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgement in a case of a lesbian woman v. France and said that exclusion of individuals from the application process for adoption of children simply because of their sexual orientation is discriminatory and is in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights. Ms. E.B., a lesbian […]
