Japanese women held back by gender inequality
Nearly two-thirds of women (63%) in Japan say that they quit because they were not satisfied with their career perspective, while 49% left because...
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Decent jobs for youths
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, during a visit to the International Labour Organization (ILO), urged employers to empower more youth in their structures and engage with...
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WomenCorporateDirectors launches global institute
The WomenCorporateDirectors Global Institute in New York has launched its WCD Thought Leadership Council (TLC) to advance better corporate governance practices. The Council, chaired...
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The Women Extraordinaire Forum 2014
The panel (left to right: Paul C. Arkwright, Farzana Aslam, Professor Caroline Wang, Fern Ngai, Anthony Thompson) Men Standing With Women Panel Discussion Panelists...
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Harvard Dean apologises to women
Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria publicly apologised for the school's treatment of female students and professors before 600 alumni and guests at a...
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All work and no play
8 in 10 Hong Kong employees want companies in Hong Kong to take more active steps in creating better work-life balance. Hong Kong is...
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Female leaders critical for success
Nearly half of female human resource managers in Hong Kong say that more women in leadership roles will be a critical success factor for...
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Painstaking progress for women in Hong Kong
Five years ago Community Business reported that just 8.9% of board roles on Hang Seng Index companies were held women. So what progress has...
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Gender gap: two steps forward, one step back
The gender gap in global labour markets showed signs of convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased again after the...
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