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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Are Talent Management Systems unwittingly biased against women?
Posted on 01 January 2009.
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When women don’t support other women in business
Posted on 01 December 2008.
I was chatting the other day with a woman I really admire when she asked me: “why don’t businesswomen just support each other more, like the blokes do?” Now I’m walking on eggshells a bit, because I know this is a very subjective question. In fact I’m probably playing with fire even raising the topic. […]
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Finally some good news for women in business
Posted on 06 November 2008.
Last week I reported on the very disappointing outcomes of the 2008 EOWA Census of women in leadership. Unless you’ve had your head in the sand or been focused on more pressing issues, you would have seen the Census coverage in all of the newspapers, business mags and practically every website relating to women in business. In […]
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Social stigmas and stereotypes
Posted on 09 September 2008.
A couple of months ago I was participating in an interview with an academic from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management on the experiences of executive women. Kelvin, the interviewer, asked me whether as a woman leader, I’d experienced any social pressures or stereotypes that had impacted my decisions on parenting, work or both. Or […]
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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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7 success strategies for advancing and retaining women
Posted on 19 August 2008.
Last week I chaired a conference in Melbourne on advancing and retaining women in firm. Amongst the line up of speakers were members of the accounting, legal, engineering, automotive and banking sector, all of whom spoke about the programs and initiatives they are running to assist in promoting diversity and developing their female talent. The […]
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