That working women get punished for being mothers is not new. However, when researchers of the Universities of Gent and Leuven, Belgium, sent out 960 job applications with different profiles, they found that children are bad news for working fathers too. Male candidates with children were invited 18% less often for job interviews. According to Professor Stijn […]
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‘I see so many women who are great at their jobs, but also at remaining invisible,’ says Elke Jeurissen, founder of the Belgian women’s network ‘De Straffe Madammen‘ (The Strong Ladies). On Story Club, the site where Business Story Teller Raf Stevens posts his interviews (in Dutch) with a variety of people, Elke Jeurissen explains
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Networking is essential to help your business flourish, but women tend to limit their exposure to new people and new ideas. Hermiana Ibarra, professor of Organisational Behavior at London Business School, analyses why, in this piece below. Source: Why strategic networking is harder for women | Herminia Ibarra
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Empowering yourself to be healthy and happy and have no regrets on your deathbed can be great fun, as Jane McGonical explains in this truly inspiring TEDtalk. What a woman!!!
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Countless studies have shown women to be great leaders who improve company performance. Organizations across a multitude of industries that have embraced the business case for increased gender diversity are spending millions of dollars on programs to help women advance. Yet we have not yet reached gender parity in the C-suite. Why? A new study
A little more than a third of American companies are now women-owned. That’s an improvement. However, together they still only generate 11% of the combined revenues of businesses and women are less likely to have employees than in the past. Funding seems to be one of the main obstacles. But because women deliver stellar returns,
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The leaders of the largest political groups in the European Parliament, the heads of their umbrella parties and the three EU presidents — of the Commission, Council and Parliament — are all men. Women still make up less than one-third of the College of Commissioners and just one-seventh of the Council. Meanwhile, only six of
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Should putting family over work be seen as ‘dropping out’? And what about ‘halo dad syndrome’? Hillary Clinton’s former policy chief believes a lot needs to change. Here’s her take on women, work, men and family. Source: Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter review – the latest episode in the ‘Can women have it all?’ soap
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