Bruce Springsteen Keynote Address - Inspiration for Women Leaders
"There is no right way of doing it, there is just doing it." Bruce Springsteen. This is one of the great lines in this keynote speech Bruce Springsteen delivered on 15 March this year at South by South...
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Diversity Waylaid - New Dutch Laws on Boards and Commissions Defeats Purpose
Friday 30 March2012, Amsterdam. It is afternoon, and the Rode Hoed debate centre is filled with well-dressed, distinguished looking people. They are here to listen to a debate organized by het...
View ArticleLeadership and Corporate Lesbians
Last year, my wife and I invited some 20 lesbian women in Dutch corporations to sit with us and talk about their experience of being lesbian and corporate. We provided the meal and some crucial...
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Quotas the “only way to increase number of women in boardrooms” say women’s...
From the collection at Aletta, Institute for Women's HistoryCompulsory quotas for women in the boardroom are a key way forward, according to a new poll of influential women’s business networks, carried...
View ArticleMaster Class Women on Boards
Stichting De Beuk and NetSHEila plan to make a difference in getting more women in decision-making bodies in Dutch companies, both in the public and the private sector. Diversity works, and you can...
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European Union Captures Gender Knowledge Through Networks
June 19, 2012 Vilnius, Lithuania. The newest European Union agency, the European Institute for Gender Equality, EIGE, will power its possibilities on networks of actors.Participants at the EIGE...
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Organizing the LGBTI ALMS Conference - a Networkers Paradise
Amsterdam, 25 July 2012: If you want to contribute to social change, you get the main actors together and work out how to effect that change successfully. I am currently organizing a conference that...
View ArticleStalemate in Journey of Women to the Top
Amsterdam, 27 July 2012. The talent pipeline that should lead to more women in top positions in major Dutch companies is too limited. There are not enough women in the sub-top to be promoted to the...
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Marissa Mayer and the Business Case for Hiring Pregnant Women
We want to share this article from The Conversation by Diann Rodgers-Healey. It provides an excellent contribution to the discussion on "crippling the pipeline for talent" provoking the stalemate...
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Creating cultures of “We”
29 August 2012. On Sunday night I watched four straight white men in suits debate their party stance on the way forward with Dutch politics. We are heading for a general election, and the leaders found...
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Entrepreneurial Krommenie
September 16, 2012 Krommenie. Krommenie has a very new initiative for the business community, Ondernemend Krommenie (OK for short and Entrepreneurial Krommenie in English) and so far we have been...
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When Staff Peek in Each Others Address Books
At a large secondary school in Krommenie, NETSHEILAis working with a selected group of teachers to start a process that will create a culture of cooperation in the school.We have only just begun and...
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When Staff Peek Into Each Others Address Books
At a large secondary school in Krommenie, NETSHEILAis working with a selected group of teachers to start a process that will create a culture of cooperation in the school.We have only just begun and...
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An Experiment with LinkedIn as a Tool in Gender Equality
When Niall Crowley, former CEO of the Irish Equality Authority summarised the hot topics that will take gender mainstreaming forward in Europe, diversity was one of them. Performance monitoring of...
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Dutch Political Parties Working Together for Women's Rights
The Hague, December 6, 2012 – Dutch politics is deeply divided on a wide range of topics, but today there is one topic that unites parties from left to right: Women. In an article published by Wo=Men,...
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