This year’s Global Summit of Women will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on May 5-7, 2011. Described as the “Davos for Women”, this year’s summit features another stellar line up of international leaders, including Government and Business leaders from PepsiCo. , HSBC, Credit Suisse, Alcan, Vodafone, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, PwC and more… 1,000 women leaders are expected […]
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2011 Global Summit of Women – Instanbul May 5-7 – The “Davos for Women”
Posted on 11 January 2011.
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One child equals a “nominal family”? Women choosing to “marry up” in preference to establishing a career? When women attack women everyone loses
Posted on 11 January 2011.
Earlier this week I wrote about the fact that everyone loses when women leave their careers. The same is true when women attack women: everyone loses. I’ve seen first hand the vengeance of stay at home mums whoattack women for using childcare. Then there’s the Ladder Kickers who get to the top and refuse to support the […]
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Court orders naming of DJs sex case witnesses – why this is a bad move for gender equality
Posted on 29 September 2010.
Those who know me know that my mantra is to keep it simple and tell it as it is… so it might seem counter intuitive that I think it’s a bad thing the Federal Court of Australia is ordering the names of witnesses be disclosed in the Kristy Fraser-Kirk / Mark McInnes case. However with […]
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The real story behind Norway’s quotas… and what other countries can learn from it
Posted on 27 September 2010.
Much is said about the gender diversity quotas introduced to Norway’s boardrooms since the 40% quota was introduced in 2005. But I find in the presentations I deliver that surprisingly little is known about this poster child country for gender equity and the path it followed to achieving the more than 40% of women on […]
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Worried that your company is rife with gender stereotypes, and it’s damaging your results? Online risk assessment toolkit for gender stereotypes.
Posted on 12 August 2010.
Gender stereotypes are much more prevalent then many employers would like to think – I could write a gender stereotype War and Peace of the stories I’ve heard from both the women who are discriminated against (or suspect they are) and the employers who have been shocked to realize what was going on int their […]
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France puts forward legislation to mandate gender equity on boards; while in Australia ASX introduces guidelines for targets
Posted on 09 December 2009.
At sphinxx we think it’s time for change when it comes for gender diversity. So it’s great news that two major countries have announced serious change for publicly listed companies this week. Under legislation put forward by the party of President Nicolas Sarkozy, women would have to comprise 50% of board members of all companies […]
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