Posted on 11 January 2011. Tags: Gender Balance, Women in Leadership
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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Posted on 11 January 2011. Tags: Employers, Family Motherhood and Home, Feminism, Flexibility at Work, Gender Balance, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership
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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Posted on 29 September 2010. Tags: Gender Balance, Media, News
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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Posted on 27 September 2010. Tags: Gender Balance, Media, News, Supporting women worldwide
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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Posted on 12 August 2010. Tags: Bias & stereotypes, Gender Balance, Sexual discrimination, working women
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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Posted on 09 December 2009. Tags: Gender Balance, Supporting women worldwide, working women
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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