We have just celebrated the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. But is it still relevant today? A small reminder of our history: before the 20th Century women had absolutely no rights. ...

The science and technology sector is vital in our knowledge economy, producing a revenue of more than 963.5 billion euros in Europe. That’s why it is essential that the sector continues to attract new talent ...

During the last Economic Forum at Davos, Manpower referred to the “human era”. In other words it is no longer the capital of a company that is the engine for growth and performance but individual ...

Since the 1960s, education policy has been firmly focused on equality and social cohesion but are schools really furthering gender equality or serving to reinforce the differences? If girls, as many studies suggest, are outperforming ...

The Fatherhood Institute (UK) published a very interesting report on the index of family equality. And yes, from now on we’ll not just speak about equality between men and women in society and work but ...

In October the European Parliament voted to extend maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay (currently 15 weeks in Belgium) and two weeks paternity leave (also two weeks in Belgium but optional) on full ...

Dear JUMP reader, I would like to share some of my emotions, experiences and findings as the appointed expert for the AXA Wo_Men@Work Award 2010, first edition. Here goes nothing. Tension ! The AXA ...

On December 9th, Belgium will announce its first true champion of gender diversity with the Wo_Men@Work Award, which spotlights and rewards leaders that are personally committed to ensuring a fair gender balance within their management ...

The World Economic Forum published its Global Gender Gap Index 2010 earlier this month. Scandinavian countries are leading the way with Iceland taking the top spot just in front of Norway, Finland and Sweden. These ...

The Woman’s Academy has teamed up with the Women’s Clinic (Groupe Chirec) to bring you the Woman’s Health Academy, — a series of workshops dedicated to Woman’s health issues. Did you know that cardiovascular ...

Their respective role in promoting gender diversity has prompted JUMP and AXA BELGIUM to team up to organise an annual awards ceremony. The AXA Wo_Men@Work Award honours a business leader who has been a fervent ...

Let’s take a look for a moment at your personal finances. Now, don’t run away! For many of us personal affairs of the fiscal kind have been more complicated than life itself. Perhaps that’s ...

This week I would like to celebrate the rentrée with a theme that can make life easier and more sparkling if employed properly … “professional flirting”. After having contributed to an article on ...

JUMP’s first survey among self-employed women in Belgium, will be finished this week. The full survey will be soon available online on the blog JUMP and on the website of the National Institute for equality ...

Fertility rates have been falling throughout Europe since the 1990s. Most birth rates are now below the necessary replacement levels — the number of children that need to be born to replace the adult populations. ...

I recently got back in touch with an old friend and was astonished to learn that she had recently resigned from her position because she was fed up with being subjected to bullying behaviour. The ...