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Cipla ranks at the top and is the only one with a balanced top tier amongst all of NIFTY50. Nestle India tops the gender balance on the board of directors. When it comes to gender balance in the top tier, NIFTY50 is snoozing. myrna labs, a social enterprise focussed on accelerating gender equality in the world of work has released the INclude top tier gender balance scorecard of NIFTY50 companies.

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Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, authorities have said, in a move upending a major hallmark of conservative restrictions that had been in place for decades.

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Global progress on gender equality is under threat. We are living in an age where major political and social shifts are resulting in new forces that are visibly pushing back to reverse the many gains made for women’s rights and to shrink civic space.

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Every employer has to make some decisions — do you promote a woman who is about to start a family? Do you hire back a woman who took a break to have a child on her old salary even though her male peers now earn twice that?

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Tata Steel on Monday said it has introduced a new human resource policy that enables its employees from the LGBTQ+ community to declare their partners and avail all HR benefits permissible under the law.

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Now we belong to the generation of working couples, who take great pride in each other’s professional achievements. So, is it still possible that a husband may grow insecure if his wife starts earning more than him? Surprisingly, a study points out that husbands still fall prey to patriarchal pressure and become increasingly stressed if their wives earn more than them.

Cipla ranks at the top and is the only one with a balanced top tier amongst all of NIFTY50. Nestle India tops the gender balance on the board of directors. When it comes to gender balance in the top tier, NIFTY50 is snoozing. myrna labs, a social enterprise focussed on accelerating gender equality in the world of work has released the INclude top tier gender balance scorecard of NIFTY50 companies.

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Everyone has to take responsibility, from nation states to you and me...
According to the World Economic Forum we will achieve equality between men and women in the economic sphere in the year . . . 2234! Wonderful news for my great-great-etc-granddaughters, assuming that a climate catastrophe has not destroyed the planet by then.

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14 November is Equal Pay Day in the UK, a day that marks the time of the year from which women are effectively working for free due to the gender pay gap. In April, thousands of British companies published their latest gender pay gap figures, revealing the percentage difference between the average hourly earnings for men and women. The data revealed that men are typically paid significantly more than women in most UK businesses.

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As Samira Ahmed’s equal pay battle with the BBC rages on, Sophie Gallagher talks to women about how they dealt with inequality at work – and what happened. Unequal pay between men and women doing the same or broadly similar work has been illegal in the UK for 40 years since the passing of the Equal Pay Act (1970). But it still happens. In June 2018 the BBC’s former China editor Carrie Gracie won her unequal pay claim after it emerged she was being paid around £100,000 less than a male comparator. Presenter Samira Ahmed who also works for the national broadcaster is currently in the process of suing for unequal pay.

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The report “Investing in gender equality”, prepared by PwC Norway and commissioned by Care and Storebrand, looks at the connection between gender diversity and corporate performance. At first, the report examines relevant literature concerning how gender diversity affects the macro and micro perspectives in a market. Next, the report introduces an analysis of the connection between gender equality and corporate performance in the Nordics, looking at gender diversity on the board, in the top management and the total workforce, and fair remuneration policies. T

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How will women fare in the future world of work in India?..This report provides an overview of dominant narratives on the future of work in India, and then contrasts these with feminist perspectives on women, work and digitization.
In looking at how women will fare in the future of work, a feminist perspective is helpful for investigating power structures and processes of marginalization that may impact vulnerable groups’ access to the work, employment conditions, rights and agency.

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A multicultural workplace offers a wealth of opportunities, as well as plenty of traps for cultural misunderstandings. Diverse workplaces generate 19 percent more revenue than less diverse work environments. In addition to generating more revenue, multicultural teams are capable of outperforming competitors that lack in diversity by a whopping 35 percent.

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Just one in five startups that receive investment is founded by a woman, leading to billions of pounds in lost innovation and growth – but change is belatedly occurring

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