I’m thinking a lot lately about authenticity at work. It’s the topic for my upcoming talk at a large firm in the south of Germany. I’ll be speaking to a women’s organization within a male-dominated industry. Some women in my audience are young and want to be evaluated on their contributions alone. Others have been …
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Aachen Team comes to Frankfurt! Dissertation Workshop
On January 18, 2012, the team from RWTH Aachen joined the team from the Goethe-University Frankfurt for a dissertation workshop at the Old Senate Chambers of the Jügel-House and the AfE-Tower. Heather Hofmeister, Celina Proch, Lena Hünefeld, Nils Matzner, Michaela Jüttemann, Julia Hahmann, Nadine Witt attended. Three team members from Aachen presented their work and …
Work-Life: Cross National Conversations in Paris
On May 17, 2011, about 80 scholars from disciplines in the social sciences, business, and management gathered at the Paris Executive Campus of the Rouen Business School. Our purpose was to develop concrete suggestions for what to consider or how to proceed to improve the use of context, especially national context, in research on work-life …
Should Germany have a Quota for women in leadership, and if so, which?
oday in the news, the difference of opinion between the Work-Minister von der Leyen and the Family-Minister Schroeder has been highlighted repeatedly. The debate is about whether or not Germany, as a nation, should set a minimum percent of women in the leadership of the companies based here, and if so, what form it should …
Featured Project! Determinants of Gender-Segregation at Universities
German universities are actively implementing many measures to try to create more gender equality (Germany is one of the lowest-ranked university systems in the world when it comes to the equal employment of men and women). The concentration of women in some fields, and men in other fields, should change so that there’s a better …
Conference in Antwerp: Challenging inequalities in contemporary societies
I just returned from the 2nd ‘Equal is not enough’ Conference, entitled “Challenging differences and inequalities in contemporary societies”, held in Antwerp (Belgium), 1-3 December 2010. The goal of the conference was to understand “the causes, consequences and underlying dynamics of inequalities,” and how policies help to overcome them. Types of inequality include gender, ethnicity, …
Diversity matters for the bottom line
The German Institute for Business Research (DIW) released a Leadership-Monitor in 2010 that revealed little change in the situation of women coming into leadership positions in Germany. In middle- and upper-level management, women still make up only 27% of the leadership circle. Of the 100 largest German firms, 96 are led by men, four by …
