Monthly Archives: April 2010
50-50. Do we need quotas to guarantee balanced leadership?
Are legislated quotas the only way, within our lifetime, to see a balance of women and men leading governments and organizations?
There are two sides to this hotly debated issue.
First, the naysayers point out that quotas are a form of reverse discrimination – the group now discriminated against (men) are previously the ones that [...]
Worlds Biggest Employers Still Losing Out On Female Talent.
The World Economic Forum has just published its 2010 Corporate Gender Gap Report. It surveys 600 leading companies across 16 industries in 20 countries and explores women’s participation in business and companies’ adherence to gender equality policies.
The survey also asked respondents to identify the biggest barriers to women’s leadership and their opinion on the probable [...]
If Women Ruled The World
There have been several recent articles extolling the virtues of women and fantasizing about how great the world would be if only we replaced male leaders with women.
In a scathing piece entitled A Nope for Pope, acid-tongued New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd suggests replacing the Pope with a nun, thus producing a “Nope.” [...]
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