It’s not just pay inequality we should be worried about – women’s cognitive abilities are affected by sexism too

EDUCATION & ECONOMY MAGDALENA ZAWISZA | INDEPENDENT

Let’s try you. Read the title above once, then cover it and write down word for word what you remember. Having difficulties? Let’s try you. Read the title above once, then cover it and write down word for word what you remember. Having difficulties? How well you do may be down to which country you live in.

Male FTSE 100 chief executives earn 77% more than female counterparts, finds new research

STATISTICS & REPORTS BEN CHU | INDEPENDENT

The report also draws attention to a considerable gender imbalance among bosses of the largest public companies, with 94 male chief executives last year versus just six females The male chief executives of the UK’s biggest publicly listed firms earn on average 77 per cent more than their female counterparts, ...

Le sexisme « bienveillant », quand les hommes nous traitent comme de petites choses fragiles

EVERYDAY SEXISM JUSTINE | MADMOIZELLE.COM

Le sexisme peut prendre plusieurs formes différentes… Dont une « bienveillante ». Justine décrypte cette notion à travers plusieurs expériences psychologiques. Il y a quelques semaines, une madmoiZelle nous a écrit pour partager ses interrogations : « Bonjour madmoiZelle, je vous contacte car j’aimerais des informations sur...

Female Lawyers Can Talk, Too!

CORPORATE PRACTICES SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN | NYTIMES

As a Federal District Court judge in New York, I often encountered this courtroom scene: A senior partner in a large law firm would be arguing a motion. I would ask a tough question. He (and it was usually a man) would turn to the young lawyer seated next to him (often a woman). After he conferred with her repeatedly, ...

De l’art de gérer la critique au travail

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER CLAIRE BAUCHART | BUSINESSOFEMININ

Bruits de couloir, discussions dans votre dos, reproches en plein open space… La critique en milieu professionnel peut fuser de n’importe où. Forte d’une expérience d’une vingtaine d’années au sein de Directions de Ressources Humaines, Laurence Bourgeois, par ailleurs auteure d’Eloge de la critique et des jeux de pouvoir en entreprise...

From Fiction to Fashion, Social Entrepreneur Nicole Rycroft Helps Business See Forests for the Trees

SOLIDARITY DAN SCHIFF | MEDIUM.COM

An Ashoka Fellow since 2003, Nicole Rycroft is a tireless warrior for the world’s forest ecosystems. The native Australian, now based in Vancouver, Canada, leads the environmental NGO Canopy, which works with business partners in the publishing and fashion industries to transform their value chains in a way that protects ancient forests.

LES VILLES OÙ IL FAIT BON ENTREPRENDRE AU FÉMININ

BUILD YOUR OWN BUSINESS FEMMES-ECONOMIE

A l’occasion du 8ème Dell Women Entrepreneur Network Summit annuel le 17 juillet dernier, Dell a dévoilé les résultats de son Women Entrepreneur Cities Index 2017, étude révélant que le lieu où les femmes choisissent d’entreprendre aurait un véritable impact sur leur réussite.
En combinant 5 catégories : les capitaux, le marché, les talents, la culture et les technologies, ...

You want to have Cybersecurity? Then Go After Diversity of Talent!

CORPORATE PRACTICES KAY FORMANEK | LINKEDIN

I was speaking last week to the CIO of an international company that had been the target of an intense cyberattack and was still trying to recover 3-weeks after the event. The company had spent significant capital on protecting itself against such an attack, and yet when the attack came, it was crippled. A due diligence of the event highlighted that...

Top 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Women Consumers

EDUCATION & ECONOMY BRIDGET BRENNAN | FORBES.COM

One of the world’s greatest emerging markets is closer than you think. Women are the world’s most powerful consumers, and their impact on the economy is growing every year. The global incomes of women are predicted to reach a staggering $18 trillion by 2018, according to global professional services firm EY. Since I run a firm that helps businesses develop marketing and sales strategies for...

Pourquoi les femmes obtiennent moins d’augmentations que les hommes?

STATISTICS & REPORTS Article écrit et publié par le Programme EVE.

En février dernier, RégionsJob faisaient paraître une étude révélant qu’un tiers des salariés français (31%) avait obtenu une augmentation de sa rémunération au cours de l’année précédente contre un quart des salariées françaises (25%). Ces chiffres venaient conforter les données produites deux ans plus tôt par l’OIT montrant, dans 38 pays , un accroissement de la part dite...

Does a Woman’s High-Status Career Hurt Her Marriage? Not If Her Husband Does the Laundry

WORK-LIFE BALANCE ALYSON BYRNE AND JULIAN BARLING | HBR.ORG

While women who win the Academy Award for Best Actress are celebrated for reaching a pinnacle of career achievement, several of them also share another distinction – divorce. Known as the “Oscar Curse,” Best Actress award recipients are more likely to file for divorce than are their nominated counterparts or Best Actor winners.

First global database ranking over 3,000 companies on progress towards gender equality

STATISTICS & REPORTS EQUILEAP.ORG

2017 Best Performers are: L’Oreal (FR), Pearson (UK), National Australia Bank (AU), Sodexo (FR) and BTG (UK) Equileap, an organization set up to accelerate progress towards gender equality at work, is issuing the first cross-sector ranking showing for the first time how well the world’s top public companies, across all sectors and countries perform on gender equality.

Pioniere. Marisa Bellisario, l’avventura del successo

INSPIRING WOMEN NICOLA MISANI | INGENERE

Considerata la prima grande manager italiana, Marisa Bellisario riuscì ad arrivare alla guida di una importante impresa come l’Olivetti con le sue forze e senza tradire se stessa. La tecnologia, amava raccontare, è il migliore alleato che una donna possa avere “Ho scelto un vestito di vigogna grigia, il meno appariscente possibile, appena ravvivato dalle pieghe della gonna, ma forse è ancora troppo squillante...

Research: Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back

STATISTICS & REPORTS SHELLEY CORRELL AND CAROLINE SIMARD | HBR.ORG

Although companies have invested heavily in programs to advance women leaders, the number of women in executive roles has not changed significantly in the last decade. Even if women are well represented as middle managers, their numbers drop off when making the jump to VP-level executives. Why are women not rising to executive ranks?

Eight Tips for Career Re-Entry

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER ANTOINE TIRARD | INSEAD.EDU

Resurrecting your career after a long break is not easy. But stories of those who went through the transition can teach us how to better navigate a way back to work. No one wants to have to choose between staying on their career path and tending to urgent personal needs that may crop up. But that’s the essential situation faced by countless professionals, ...

Via Campesina: les femmes portent de plus en plus le poids de la production des biens et des aliments

SOLIDARITY 50-50MAGAZINE.FR

Née en 1993, la Via Campesina ou Voix des paysans et des paysannes du monde, est un mouvement international regroupant 164 organisations de 73 pays. Elle représente près de 200 millions de paysan-ne-s. Mouvement autonome, pluraliste et multiculturel, sa demande de justice sociale lui donne...

Vorig jaar waren er voor het eerst evenveel mannen als vrouwen doctor-assistent. Het glazen plafond in de universitaire aula’s wordt traag maar gestaag aan diggelen geslagen. Dat schrijft De Tijd vandaag.

EDUCATION & ECONOMY LVA | DEMORGEN

Aan de top van onze kennisinstellingen overheerst de das nog steeds. Terwijl er in de aula’s meer vrouwen dan mannen zitten, staat vooraan in de overgrote meerderheid van de gevallen nog steeds een man.

Toujours très peu de femmes dans l’informatique: voici comment Cisco tente de changer le cours de choses

ENGAGING MEN RTL.BE

Médecin, vétérinaire, avocate, institutrice… Voilà les carrières qui attirent beaucoup de petites filles à l’âge de 10 ans. Les générations passent, la société et les métiers évoluent et pourtant, combien rêvent aujourd’hui de devenir ingénieure, informaticienne ou codeuse ? Les métiers du secteur des technologies de l’information et de la communication sont pourtant,...

YouTube : Elles prennent la parole

INSPIRING WOMEN LES INTERNETTES

YouTube compte aujourd’hui plus d’un milliard d’utilisateurs, soit près d’un tiers des internautes du monde entier. La consommation de contenus sur YouTube fait à présent partie de la culture de masse des moins de 30 ans. Pourtant, dans le top 100 des chaînes françaises, seulement une dizaine de créatrices vidéo.