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Equality Act: Closing the gender pay gap
The equality act will make it possible for the government to ask all employers with over 250 employees to report their gender pay gap from 2013. Linda Scott, HR director at British Transport Police (BTP), says addressing equal pay will be a "massive read moreCreated on 27 July 2010
Working mums 'resented' in workplace
Nine out of 10 working women resent colleagues with flexible working. Believing that they use their children to get out of work and are less productive. The findings were taken from a study in Grazia Magazine. 41% of the sample were married, 19% were read moreCreated on 26 July 2010
Third of women now main breadwinner at home
The Women and Work survey by Grazia Magazine polled 2000 women about their attitude to work and motherhood. 30% of those who took part earn more than their partners and another 19% earn the same amount. Nine out of 10 women said that child free workers read moreCreated on 26 July 2010
Incentivizing the Return to the Office after Childbirth
In the current population survey in 2004, 27.5 percent of wage and salary workers in the US had flexible work schedules. Research done by the Cranfield School of Management in the UK found that people able to work flexibly worked more intensely and had read moreCreated on 26 July 2010
As Careers Paths Change, Make On-Ramping Easy
58% of top female talent experience career interruptions that can make progressing in their career difficult. In 2004 a study by the Harvard Business Review found that the main reason for women downshifting from their career or even stopping work all read moreCreated on 20 July 2010
Women will suffer most from the next round of job cuts
Yvette Cooper, shadow welfare secretary has explained the reason why she will not stand for the position. She has small children, and it is a big job. This article in the Guardian talks about working mothers and the two demanding roles they have to perform. read moreCreated on 20 July 2010
Women take charge: institutional bias rife
Christina Ioannidis, CEO of Aquitude talks through the statistics of a You Gov survey commissioned by Deutsche Bank. read moreCreated on 20 July 2010
The New Dad- exploring the father
This article looks at the changing role of the father. In the US women now earn 57% of bachelor degrees and 60% of master degrees, the number of “traditional families” has slipped from over 45% in the seventies to just over 25%, however, in read moreCreated on 6 July 2010
The Business Case for Gender Balance
In the corporate world men account for 89% of the board members in Europe's biggest listed companies. Norway is the only country near reaching gender balance with 42% women and 58% men on their boards. A study in Finland found that firms with a gender-balanced board read moreCreated on 23 June 2010
What men need to learn about leadership
The Financial Times reports on the McKinsey leadership project and what was found out about the benefits of female leadership styles. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, author of How Women Mean Business argues that we do not need to treat women as minorities read moreCreated on 23 June 2010
The Parent Project: Identity Opportunity
This article in Management Today discusses the shift in priorities that every new mother experiences. Reasearch by Dr Lynne Millward Purvis found that women undergo three 'identity shifts' when becoming mothers. Before leave working mothers have read moreCreated on 23 June 2010
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
HBS professor Boris Groysberg found that when a successful male analyst is hired by another organisation, the organisation can expect a dip in his performance. However, the same is not true with a female analysts. Unlike their male peers they thrive read moreCreated on 21 June 2010