CERAM’S Human Resources Professor, Michel Ferrary research shows that firms with a higher ratio of women in management have better resisted the financial crisis. The more women on a company’s senior management team, the less its share price fell in 2008, according to an analysis of companies from the French CAC 40 stock exchange index. […]
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Women: the Antidote to the Financial Crisis – this is what we like to hear!
Posted on 05 January 2009.
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Women and the Vision Thing – Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback – a HBR survey
Posted on 03 January 2009.
Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback. It may be a matter of perception, but it stops women from getting to the top. Many believe that bias against women lingers in the business world, particularly when it comes to evaluating their leadership ability. Recently, we had a chance to see […]
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Are Talent Management Systems unwittingly biased against women?
Posted on 01 January 2009.
A new Catalyst’s report, ‘Cascading Gender Biases, Compounding Effects: An Assessment of Talent Management Systems’, has revealed that core components of talent management are linked in ways that disadvantage women. A rare assessment of talent management systems from more than 110 leading companies across 19 industries, identifies how gender biases and stereotypes can be unconsciously […]
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What pushes your buttons?
Posted on 26 August 2008.
Last week my favorite newspaper column featured a story of how one bank is tackling its gender imbalance at the top. A head of diversity and inclusion has been appointed and a forum for 300 of the bank’s executive women was convened to signal a commitment to change the bank’s gender profile. Sounds like good […]
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1000 terrible things Australian men have said about women
Posted on 16 May 2008.
That’s what The Ernie’s Book is all about. Written by Meredith Burgmann & Yvette Andrews, Ernie’s book is “a rollocking good read” that tracks 15 years of media quotes from men about women and presents the best of the worst in one small, pink book! The authors are speaking on Monday 19th May as part of the Sydney […]
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Would you be brave enough to speak out?
Posted on 19 April 2008.
The issues of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in the workplace are age old, but are attitudes changing over time or are they as prevalent as ever? It seems that cases continue to arise – like the Christina Rich settlement with PwC – where women are being disadvantaged in their career progression and opportunities by […]
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