The Business Case

EuropeanPWN is Europe’s dynamic fast-growing online and offline networking and leadership development platform for professional women of all sectors and industries. With 3500 members and more th...

The Programme, launched in 2003, involves FTSE 100 Chairmen and CEOs acting as mentors to senior women just below board level in other FTSE companies. The mentors guide and advise women in the managem...

This report gives information on equality and equal opportunity in Sweden and highlights key women.

While working women around the globe share many common experiences, local situations strongly influence how women view and experience their professional career. What are the local dynamics that truly ...

The survey found that a typical senior international professional woman forms her networks primarily for social/personal reasons (e.g. meet new people, personal development), and secondly for business ...

Forté Foundation is a consortium of leading multinational corporations, top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate Management Admission Council. Forté is the leading o...

GEF (Grandes Ecoles au Féminin) is a group representing women in France’s leading Grandes Ecoles. It was created in 2002 and its objective is to promote the women in the business world an...

Depuis son lancement en octobre 2004, la charte de la diversité incite les entreprises à garantir la promotion et le respect de la diversité dans leurs effectifs. En la signant, c...

This report proposes ways to close the gender skills gap. The gender skills gap is damaging the UK economy and the Women and Work Commission estimate that closing it could increase gross domestic prod...

Is it time for British women to use the law to get more representation in company boardrooms? Research on gender and teamwork conducted by the Centre for Women in Business at London Business School sh...

The deck is stacked against women from the earliest days of their careers, according to new research from DDI. “Holding Women Back: Troubling Discoveries and Best Practices for Helping Female Le...

Aimed at companies, managers, researchers, journalists, business schools, and women, WOMEN-omics is the first website focused on the theme of promoting women as an economic opportunity. It is designed...

The economic crisis is expected to increase the number of unemployed women by up to 22 million in 2009, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends for Women repo...

Nowadays, businesses can no longer turn a blind eye to the issue of gender equality at the top of the corporate ladder. However, the higher one climbs within a company or institution, the fewer women ...

Capitalcom, Ricol, Lasteyrie & Associés et Christian & Timbers ont mené, dans le cadre du Women's Forum, une étude comparative sur un panel de 300 entreprises repré...

For more than a quarter of a century, the National Council for Research onWomen has been raising awareness about gender disparities and promoting the advancement of women and girls. A major focus has ...

Responding to the request of Women’s Forum, VIGEO has conducted a study, which analyses the extent to which the managerial systems of multinational companies have integrated diversity and gender...

The “Women Matter” study was carried out by McKinsey & Company in line with its worldwide partnership with the Women’s Forum. It shows that those companies with the highest ...

Few topics have recently received more comment or been so often studied than that of gender diversity, the difficulties in promoting it, and the possible remedies in overcoming obstacles to achieving ...

Women Corporate Directors is a rapidly growing international community of women who serve as directors of corporations. We are committed to sharing the best practices of corporate governance and to di...

This report presents historical and current labor force and earnings data for women and men from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000 house...

The current financial crisis presents a real need to challenge ourselves and to rethink the way we do things. We need to draw on the widest range of talent. The vast economic potential of women as an ...

Each one of us is responsible for the world in which we live and we must work together to create a new social profile. This is the main lesson to come out of a brainstorming lunch organised by Mazars ...

Ensuring that women move into leadership alongside men is not a women’s issue, nor is it a trivial concern compared with the massive problems we face on a national and global scale. In...

Since 1999, our annual Female FTSE benchmarking report has provided a regular measure of the number of women executive directors on the corporate boards of the UK's top 100 companies. The Female FTSE ...

One out of ten board members is female - The top 300 European companies now have 9.7% of women on their boards, up from 8.5% in 2006 and 8% in 2004. Of a total 5,146 board seats, women occupy 501. Eur...

Although women have made enormous gains in the business world--they hold seats on corporate boards and run major companies--they still comprise only 10% of senior managers in Fortune 500 companies. Wh...

20-first has published its first annual survey of the top global companies – the top Fortune 101 companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Focusing on a core gender balance metric, the r...

In this report, inspired and commissioned by Avon, we present a picture of independent businesswomen in Britain today. We have termed these women Lipstick Entrepreneurs and the movement that they are ...

In 2009, women held 13.5 percent of Executive Officer positions at Fortune 500 companies. Executive Officer compensation remains a visible indicator of women’s status in corporations, with women...

In 2009, women held 15.2 percent of board seats at Fortune 500 companies, the same as 2008. In both 2008 and 2009, almost 90 percent of companies had at least one women director, but less than 20 perc...

The 2009 Catalyst Census: Financial Post 500 Women Board Directors examines women’s representation on corporate boards at the most profitable companies in Canada, assessing women’s advance...

The Treasury Committee publishes its report, 'Women in the City' - prompted by its work on the banking crisis, which shone a spotlight on the need for reform to increase financial stability, including...

The 2010 Women Matter report by McKinsey & Company confirms that women are still under-represented at board level, although this has improved in some Western European countries. At the same time, ...

BCG and the members of the Diversity Club have conducted several workshops with women and men in France, the UK and Germany to gather different possible images of the future of women in business. What...

With mounting pressure for a better gender balance on boards and senior executive teams, the number of women directors in many European countries is increasing steadily, but slowly. These are the resu...

Lord Davies recommends that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should be aiming for a minimum of 25% female board member representation by 2015; he has recommended in his report for government that F...

The benefits of gender-diverse leadership extend beyond short-term financial performance. Companies with both women and men leaders in the boardroom and at the executive table are poised to achieve su...

A la suite des avancées règlementaires sur l’égalité professionnelle, la part des femmes dans les conseils d’administration et de surveillance a doublé a...

Since 2007, McKinsey’s Women Matter research has explored the role women play in the global workplace, their experiences and impact in senior-executive roles, and the performance benefits that c...