As offices begin to reopen, some women are setting new physical, emotional and cultural boundaries.
A mentally and physically healthy workforce creates wins for the overall business.
The world is changing at a rapid pace, and the way we work, live and do business has changed along with it.
Ten Ways To Support Women In The Workplace During A Crisis There is growing concern that gender-based inequalities around the world will soon surge, reversing progress on gender equality and sustainable development goals. Losing ground at this stage will have dire consequences for women, especially when we have come this far. It’s imperative that women, girls, and other vulnerable groups are at the center…
Katty Kay On Why This Quarantine May Give Women ‘a Bit More Power at Work and at Home’ Katty Kay is finding the silver linings amid the coronavirus pandemic. The BBC presenter and MSNBC contributor, who is in quarantining in Washington D.C. with her husband and three of their four children, said the quality time she has been able to…
For female leaders, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. By learning to lean in, speak out, negotiate, delegate, and a dozen other behaviors, women everywhere are launching themselves through the glass ceilings of their organizations, landing jobs at or near the C-suite level. But what happens after the promotion? While top-level jobs are tough on everyone,…
Neha Bagaria only intended to take a break from her career to have a baby but, ended up taking a three-year hiatus. After returning, she founded JobsForHer to help women integrate back into the workforce. Bagaria took a break in 2009 to have her baby and re-entered the workforce in 2013. She was unhappy with her job at a Biotech company…
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 celebrity. It was only when…
Despite the fact that women earn almost 60 percent of undergraduate degrees and 60 percent of all master’s degrees in the U.S., they comprise only 25 percent of executive- and senior-level officials and managers, hold 20 percent of board seats and only 6 percent are CEOs, according to the “Women’s Leadership Gap” report by The Center for American Progress. According…
BBC has said it is working to ensure there it has an equal number of male and female experts across its programmes by April 2019, taking a positive step towards bringing about gender equality in the workplace. The broadcaster said it is seeking to guarantee there is a 50:50 split in the expert contributors featured on its news, current affairs, and…
