Mar 16, 2016 | Corporate, Leadership, Political, Work, Workplace Diversity
“Hey guys! You can do something very simple to help achieve gender equality in the business world. Just say no to all-male panels.
Start immediately.
On Tuesday afternoon, a United Nations-based organization devoted to responsible business practices took a stand on the issue. The executive director of the U.N. Global Compact, Lise Kingo, announced that the organization’s 80 employees will no longer participate in or host all-male panel discussions.
“Too often I’ve been the only woman on a panel. It is time that we challenge the status quo and stop making excuses — there is no shortage of qualified women,” Kingo said in a statement, part of her opening remarks at the Women’s Empowerment Principles annual event in New York.
The U.N. Global Compact plans on urging its 8,500 member companies, including Coca-Cola, Cisco, HP and Johnson & Johnson, to also take the pledge. Notably, some of the biggest tech companies, including Google and Facebook, have not signed on to the Global Compact — a commitment to higher standards on environmental, labor and human rights issues.”
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Mar 14, 2016 | Political
“She’ll have to wait her turn,” she said. Other nurses’ reactions ranged from dismissive to condescending. “You’re just feeling a little pain, honey,” one of them told Rachel, all but patting her head.”
“Women are likely to be treated less aggressively until they prove that they are as sick as male patients.”
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Mar 4, 2016 | Political
“The most powerful voter this year, who in her rapidly increasing numbers has become an entirely new category of citizen, is the single American woman.”
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Feb 8, 2016 | Corporate, Economic Security, Education, Leadership, Mentoring, Occupational Segregation, Political, Salary & Compensation, Talent Management, Wage Gap, Work, Workplace Diversity
“The Women’s Empowerment Principles are a set of Principles for business offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. They are the result of a collaboration between the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the United Nations Global Compact and are adapted from the Calvert Women’s Principles®. The development of the Women’s Empowerment Principles included an international multi-stakeholder consultation process, which began in March 2009 and culminated in their launch on International Women’s Day in March 2010.
Subtitled Equality Means Business, the Principles emphasize the business case for corporate action to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment and are informed by real-life business practices and input gathered from across the globe. The Women’s Empowerment Principles seek to point the way to best practice by elaborating the gender dimension of corporate responsibility, the UN Global Compact, and business’ role in sustainable development. As well as being a useful guide for business, the Principles seek to inform other stakeholders, including governments, in their engagement with business.
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Feb 4, 2016 | Economic Security, Education, Leadership, Mentoring, Occupational Segregation, Political, State Initiatives, STEM, Talent Management, Vermont, Wage Gap, Work, Workplace Diversity
“At a recent press conference, Vermont Tech announced their initiative to tackle workforce development, economic development and gender equity by significantly increasing participation rates among women in several historically male-dominated fields. The college has set new annual female enrollment growth targets in civil and environmental engineering technology, computer information technology, computer software engineering, construction management, and mechanical engineering technology. The enrollment targets project annual growth of nearly 40%, each year for the next three years starting in the fall of 2016. By the end of the project term, Vermont Tech should realize an increase of female participation in these programs from 10% to 24%. The momentum of such growth and lessons learned from the activities of the project’s years should yield even greater participation rates beyond 2018.”
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Feb 3, 2016 | CTS in the news, Education, Mentoring, Occupational Segregation, Political, State Initiatives, STEM, Talent Management, Vermont, Wage Gap, Work, Workplace Diversity
“At a recent press conference, Vermont Tech announced their initiative to tackle workforce development, economic development and gender equity by significantly increasing participation rates among women in several historically male-dominated fields. The college has set new annual female enrollment growth targets in civil and environmental engineering technology, computer information technology, computer software engineering, construction management, and mechanical engineering technology. The enrollment targets project annual growth of nearly 40%, each year for the next three years starting in the fall of 2016. By the end of the project term, Vermont Tech should realize an increase of female participation in these programs from 10% to 24%. The momentum of such growth and lessons learned from the activities of the project’s years should yield even greater participation rates beyond 2018.”
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