The European Parliament is seeking to put a stop to a perceived decline in workers’ participation in corporate decision-making – an issue that affects 190 million employees across Europe – and bring the European Commission to heel.
The Bechdel Test, or Bechdel-Wallace Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria: (1) it has to have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man.
By Bettina Reinboth, Head of Social Issues, the PRI: As investors increasingly address climate change within their investments, it is important to remember that climate change is as much a social issue as an environmental one. And, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is also important to address gender inequality as we move towards a low-carbon global economy.
CFP: Special issue of Internet Policy Review on The gender of the platform economy How public policies could favour a feminist transition from the industrial to the digital platform era in a COVID-19 context Co-sponsored by the Digital Commons (Dimmons) and the K-riptography and Information Security for Open Networks (KISON) research groups of the Internet Interdisciplinary
Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, has penned a first-person essay for Elle magazine detailing her time at the search giant and the series of events leading up to her resignation this past June after alleged retaliation from upper management.It’s well worth a read to understand the fraught state of Google’s culture.
Last week, tens of thousands of Google employees around the globe a took part in a largely women-led walkout, in response to a string of sexual harassment claims — but the labor history behind that kind of strike is longer than the company may realize.
Alles, was uns umgibt, wird anhand von Daten konzipiert und gebaut. Diese nehmen allerdings häufig Männer zur Norm. In ihrem Buch «Unsichtbare Frauen» analysiert Caroline Criado-Perez die Folgen des «Gender Data Gap».