A complete irony that just as the words ‘women power’ are mentioned in the room, the power goes off. It’s a cold winter’s day in Johannesburg and the Greenside suburb that we are in for this interview is encountering unscheduled load-shedding. The word power was in describing Phuti Mahanyele’s and Stacey Brewer’s ascent to corporate […]
As the University of Oxford offered more undergraduate places to British women than men for the first time last year, in its more than 1,000-year history, the world takes a step in the right direction towards gender equality. Of the total figure, female sixth-formers also outnumbered their male peers, according to data published by UCAS, the […]
As we continue to discuss the problem of lack of women in management in corporate America, Accenture offers a way that can be a step in the right direction to remove gender divide in the workplace. It’s that time of year again! International Woman’s Day is a holiday during which people and companies around the […]
Women have made great strides in the workplace, but inequality persists. The issue of equal pay is still a hot-button topic. The US Census Bureau reports that women earn 80 percent of what men are paid. Such inequality is hardly unique to the United States, however. In the following Q&A, Mary Brinton—sociology professor at Harvard University—answered a […]
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