Women & Work

Male employees reluctant to engage with gender equality initiatives

13 Nov 2024 | Management-Issues

A new study conducted among male employees of a multinational manufacturing company reveals a stark disengagement with gender equality issues in the workplace.

Keeping your seat at the table: an interview with Nori Jabba

18 Oct 2023 | Management-Issues

If you are a woman over 40 and feel that you can't land a job despite your experience and qualifications, this interview with author Nori Jabba, author of "Keeping your seat at the table", is for you.

Employees demand more support for staff undergoing fertility treatment

14 Sep 2023 | Management-Issues

One in five UK workers undergoing fertility treatment have quit their job due to the way they were treated, new research has found.

Slow progress in reducing the UK's gender pay gap

13 Sep 2023 | Management-Issues

While the UK's gender pay gap has reduced by little more than two percent over the past six years, figures also show a rise in the proportion of women in higher paid roles.

Keeping your seat at the table

11 Sep 2023 | Management-Issues

If you are a woman over 40 and feel that you can't land a job despite your experience and qualifications, this interview with author Nori Jabba is for you.

The invisible woman

21 Mar 2018 | Myra White

Visibility is key to building the type of power that leads to top jobs. Men are masters of this visibility, but women are not. So we won't get more women in leadership positions until they start to step out of the shadows and give themselves and their talents a higher profile.

Your wardrobe and your work

04 Aug 2017 | Management-Issues

How far can employers in the UK go when it comes to telling women what they can and can’t - or should - wear at work?

Confidence boosters for women in business

08 Mar 2017 | Abi Eniola

Studies show the majority of women believe confidence is key to effective leadership, but it’s something they struggle with throughout their careers. So what can they do to enhance their presence at senior levels?

Essential attributes of successful women leaders

14 Feb 2017 | Cindy Wahler

Almost all the successful career women who have achieved a seat at the top table have applied their business savvy in two strategic ways that help to position them as leaders who truly makes a mark.

Are women's leadership assumptions holding them back?

24 Mar 2016 | Xiaowei Rose Luo

There has been a lot of discussion about the stereotypes contributing to the lack of women in the c-suite. But one of the biggest obstacles could be their own assumptions about the path they’re supposed to take.

Gender diversity, culture & performance

11 Jan 2016 | Margaret Kett

Encouraging companies to appointment more women to their boards isn't about quotas, it's a strategic imperative that is changing methods of decision-making and positively influencing management cultures.

Token women?

25 Nov 2015 | Swarnodeep Homroy

Unless female directors are embedded into a company’s decision-making process and can demonstrate their ongoing value, targets designed to increase the proportion of women on boards will remain nothing more than token symbolism.

Cultural challenges for female expats

01 Jun 2015 | Cynthia Stuckey

Nobody finds it easy being thrown into a new culture. But for women, international assignments can be particularly challenging as a result of cultural and gender barriers that their male colleagues simply don’t face.

Letting go of control

05 Jan 2015 | Dawna Jones

Hear about leadership based on credibility and trust rather than 'yell and tell'.

Are women better leaders than men?

06 May 2014 | Mitch McCrimmon

With the modern work environment emphasizing feminine relationship-building skills to the exclusion of masculine competitive instincts, the idea that women make better leaders than men is gaining ground. But perhaps the reality lies somewhere in the middle.

Half of women report harassment at work

02 Apr 2014 | Brian Amble

Half of women claim they have experienced bullying or harassment at work over the past three years, according to a survey of 25,000 women, with much of this harassment coming from other women. And the problem extends right up to board level.

Flexible workers are overwhelmingly men

24 Feb 2014 | Brian Amble

Far from being dominated by women juggling work and childcare, the ranks of remote workers in the US are overwhelmingly made up of men, a new survey has found.

Mentoring gap keeping women and minorities out of corporate elite

20 Sep 2013 | Brian Amble

The numbers of women and people from racial minorities serving on America's corporate boards may have increased over the past decade, but the influential elite holding multiple board positions remains a white, male closed-shop. New research explores why.

Why men really feel threatened by successful women

02 Sep 2013 | Brian Amble

It's often said that many men have a problem with successful women. Well, here's why. According to a study published by the American Psychological Association, a woman's success undermines her partner's sense of self-esteem and trigger men's fears that she will ultimately leave him.

Male managers' bonuses are double those of women

20 Aug 2013 | Brian Amble

British men in management positions stand to earn over £141,500 ($220,000) more in bonuses over the course of their working lifetimes than women doing the same jobs, a new report has found.