by Christine Marlet | Oct 28, 2024 | All, Gender Equality, Women Input in Digitalisation, Women Input in STEM
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are seen as the fields of the future, with expanding job opportunities creating the goods, services and innovations that shape our daily lives. Yet women and girls form a third or less of the students, employees and innovators in these fields. When they do work in STEM, women earn 85% or less of what men are paid, and they are more likely to be the target of gender-based violence and sexism than women in other fields. Virtually no progress has been made in the past two decades.
by Christine Marlet | Oct 24, 2024 | All, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance/Integration
María Ángeles Noguera is the founder of OFA, a Dutch-Spanish consultancy firm, which has been helping families, companies and the public sector to reconcile work and family life for many years. She speaks to us about improving our work life balance
by Christine Marlet | Oct 22, 2024 | Gender Equality, Others, Women in Entrepreneurship, Women in Leadership
If there are still few women in management positions, it’s because gender stereotypes are still legion… and women have unfortunately integrated some of them.
by Christine Marlet | Oct 22, 2024 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance/Integration
Whilst pay is an important marker of a ‘good’ job, other aspects of work – such as the demands it places on workers, the level of control they have, working hours, flexibility and job security – also impact employees’ wellbeing significantly.(Green et al, 2024) This is known as ‘job quality’. Our research shows that mothers, particularly those with young children, face multiple disadvantages when it comes to job quality. We have termed this the ‘motherhood penalty in job quality’.
by Christine Marlet | Oct 3, 2024 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality
The Other Half have a new report on What Mums Want in the Early Years. 582 brilliant mums gave us clear and thoughtful stories that show how 21st Century motherhood has withered from the promise given. Today’s big policy offer to women is low cost childcare so mums can work more after a baby. But is that what they want? Polling suggests not. We wanted to know why, so we asked them.
by Christine Marlet | Sep 24, 2024 | All, Gender Equality
There’s a lot of debate about how to move the dial on gender equality around the world, and growing emphasis on how this cannot happen without getting men on board with the movement.
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