Tag Archives: gender

Flexible working is becoming a must for many. One recent report found a quarter of UK workers have refused a job due to a lack of flexibility. This number jumps to 40% for millennial workers for whom work-life balance and …

Many companies and organisations appear keen to support a more diverse workforce, where minority group members are made to feel welcome. One strategy involves creating special “spaces” at work, physical or otherwise, where minority employees can connect with each other. …

What do you need to innovate in the Transformative Age? You need diversity. You need men. And you need women. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but it is also linked to a country’s overall economic performance. Organizations …

Each year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report examines the state of gender parity in the world of work. This year, the report found that while the global gender gap has narrowed slightly, fewer women are participating in the workforce. …

Despite significant improvement noticed in quite a number of developing and emerging economies for empowering women through strategies like Millennium Developmental Goals followed by Sustainable Development Goals for reducing gender disparity women still continue to be less privileged segment of …

Saleema, living in a shack in a shantytown in Karachi, is 18-year old maid who has been working since she was 5-year old. It was 13 years ago when Samreen, the mother of Saleema and a maid herself, was asked …

In Pakistan, women entrepreneurship is presently considered a significant tool in enabling women empowerment and emancipation. It is said that the advantages of women entrepreneurship are many and varied. The number of women entrepreneurs across the globe is rising, which …

Female CEOs of large firms are a rare breed. In the US in 2015, there were more CEOs called John running big companies in the US than women. In 2016, there were only six female CEOs in the firms covered …

Kudos to California, where the state governor, Jerry Brown, recently signed into law new requirements for companies headquartered in the state to include more women on their boards. The law will force heavyweights such as Apple, Facebook, Tesla, and Google …

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day and as such, we’ve pulled together the suicide rates of a selection of countries, by gender. Of the 25 looked at here, the World Health Organization estimates Russia to have by far the highest rate among men, …