Delivering through diversity - Mc Kinsey

Our latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.

Awareness of the business case for inclusion and diversity is on the rise. While social justice typically is the initial impetus behind these efforts, companies have increasingly begun to regard inclusion and diversity as a source of competitive advantage, and specifically as a key enabler of growth. Yet progress on diversification initiatives has been slow. And companies are still uncertain about how they can most effectively use diversity and inclusion to support their growth and value-creation goals.

Gender Equality, Gender BiasBrigitte BellanMarch 3, 2018McKinsey, Diversity

Technology will widen pay gap and hit women hardest – Davos report- Guardian

Research into jobs finds men’s dominance in IT and biotech is reversing trend towards equality

The gulf between men and women at work – in both pay and status – is likely to widen unless action is taken to tackle inequality in high-growth sectors such as technology, say researchers at this week’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos.

A new WEF report on the future of jobs finds the dominance of men in industries such as information and biotechnology, coupled with the enduring failure of women to rise to the top even in the health and education sectors, is helping to reverse gender equality after years of improvements.

Artificial intelligence could hardwire sexism into our future. Unless we stop it- WEF Blog

In five years’ time, we might travel to the office in driverless cars, let our fridges order groceries for us and have robots in the classroom. Yet, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017, it will take another 100 years before women and men achieve equality in health, education, economics and politics.

What’s more, it's getting worse for economic parity: it will take a staggering 217 years to close the gender gap in the workplace.

How can it be that the world is making great leaps forward in so many areas, especially technology, yet it's falling backwards when it comes to gender equality?

Bias, AI, Biased decisions, Data, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Women in Tech, Women in the WorkplaceBrigitte BellanDecember 16, 2017Alison Kay, EY, WEF

The key to closing the gender gap? Putting more women in charge - WEF

While women worldwide are closing the gap in critical areas such as health and education, significant gender inequality persists in the workforce and in politics. Given current rates of change, this year’s Global Gender Gap Reportestimates it will be another 217 years before we achieve gender parity.

As part of its workforce gap analysis, the World Economic Forum turned to LinkedIn to better understand the trends in gender equality across the workforce. Thanks to our unique insight into real-time workforce trends, LinkedIn can provide more depth, nuance, and timeliness than the sort of data historically gathered by governments or NGOs. Our data provides insight into the role women leaders play in driving overall economic equity and participation.

Can we talk about the gender pay gap? By Xaquín G.V., Washington Post

The median salary for women working full-time is about 80 percent of men’s. That gap, put in other terms, means women are working for free 10 weeks a year.

... you started working for free 15 hours ago

Well, that is a little blunt — there are gradients on that difference. The pay gap varies depending on the occupation, working hours, education attainment, experience, and geography.

Start-Ups Use Technology to Redesign the Hiring Process - NY Times

Iris Bohnet, a behavioral economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, spoke to the founders of two behavioral design start-ups, Kate Glazebrook of Applied and Frida Polli of Pymetrics, for the latest on the algorithmic design revolution that is transforming hiring practices.

Hatier publie le premier manuel scolaire en écriture inclusive - HuffPost

FÉMINISME - "Grâce aux agriculteur.rice.s, aux artisan.e.s et aux commerçant.e.s, la Gaule était un pays riche." C'est avec des phrases de ce type que des enfants de CE2 apprendront l'histoire dans un manuel Hatier pour l'année scolaire 2017-2018, comme l'a repéré Le Figaro vendredi 22 septembre.

La maison d'édition, qui publie notamment le Bescherelle, a diffusé au mois de mars dernier ce premier manuel en 'écriture inclusive', un mode d'écriture qui féminise les mots en plaçant, entre des points, la terminaison du féminin.

Intitulé "Questionner le Monde", le livre a été repéré par un professeur de physique-chimie et une image diffusée dans un groupe d'enseignants sur Facebook, comme l'explique Le Figaro.

EDUCATION, Sexism, Gender Bias, Gender EqualityBrigitte BellanOctober 12, 2017HuffPost, Ecriture Inclusive, TextBook, French

Women in the Workplace 2017 - LeanIn.Org and McKinsey

More companies are committing to gender equality. But progress will remain slow unless we confront blind spots on diversity—particularly regarding women of color, and employee perceptions of the status quo.

Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for 30 years and counting. There is a pressing need to do more, and most organizations realize this: company commitment to gender diversity is at an all-time high for the third year in a row.

Despite this commitment, progress continues to be too slow—and may even be stalling. Women in the Workplace 2017, a study conducted by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey, looks more deeply at why, drawing on data from 222 companies employing more than 12 million people, as well as on a survey of over 70,000 employees and a series of qualitative interviews. One of the most powerful reasons for the lack of progress is a simple one: we have blind spots when it comes to diversity, and we can’t solve problems that we don’t see or understand clearly.

Here's why gender equality is taking so long - World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum estimates gender parity globally may now be over 170 years away. Previously they estimated an 80-year time, then it was 120 years. It keeps slowing down. The Forum's Annual Gender Gap Report shows slow progress and minimal change in many countries worldwide. What is causing this glacial pace of change, something the airline industry calls a “creeping delay”?

There are many headwinds that can lengthen the time required for desired systemic change, but there is one I’d like to address here, head on, and it’s this: unconscious bias.

In general, there is a lack of awareness about who others are and what their capabilities and inherent qualities may be. In corporations, this often manifests as a culture that is unfriendly or unhelpful to women.

Bias, Gender Gap, Gender EqualityBrigitte BellanOctober 7, 2017World Economic Forum