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Culture helps handle the darker sides of working life tema

Culture helps handle the darker sides of working life

Oct 14, 2012 There are great hopes that creativity will give businesses the competitive edge, but amateurish attempts at introducing culture into working life do not help, say Finnish pioneers on culture in businesses.
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Theme: Can culture turn the downturn around?

Oct 14, 2012 The role culture plays in creating jobs has become even more important. Both within the EU and in the Nordic region there is talk of culture being a creative catalyst which can help create competitiveness and employment in the wider economy.
Nordic women lose power despite Denmark’s new prime minister tema

Nordic women lose power despite Denmark’s new prime minister

Mar 08, 2012 The Nordic Labour Journal’s gender barometer shows equality between the sexes in top political and professional positions is falling in the Nordic region. Denmark gaining its first female prime minister with Helle Thorning-Schmidt does not make up for the fact that Finland has just got a male president and a male prime minister.
Danish gender equality shifting up a gear tema

Danish gender equality shifting up a gear

Mar 08, 2012 Denmark’s new Minister for Gender Equality, Manu Sareen, promises to turbo charge gender equality. His main focus will to fight violence against women and a gender-divided labour market. He wants more women in top management and into board rooms.
More women rise to the top at Carlsberg tema

More women rise to the top at Carlsberg

Mar 08, 2012 It’s looking bad for gender equality in Danish companies’ boardrooms and management. There is massive opposition to legally binding female quotas. Now one of Danish business’ old giants is taking voluntary action: from 2015 at least 40 percent of the elected members to the board of Carlsberg brewery will be women.
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Effective sanctions make Norway’s quota law a success

Mar 08, 2012 The law on quotas is the most efficient measure to improve the boardroom gender balance. “But the law should be followed up by effective sanctions and state measures which help stimulate the action.” That is the advice from head of research Mari Teigen to other countries looking to legislate for quotas on company boards.
Women’s businesses mirror gender segregated labour market tema

Women’s businesses mirror gender segregated labour market

Mar 08, 2012 There is strong political will in Sweden to strengthen women’s entrepreneurship. Between 2007 and 2014 the centre-right government spent a total of 800m SEK (€90m) on supporting, developing and highlighting women’s enterprise.
Demand for more female board members as EU’s patience runs out tema

Demand for more female board members as EU’s patience runs out

Mar 08, 2012 EU Commissioner Viviane Reding’s patience has ran out. European companies have failed to improve board room gender equality to a satisfactory degree. The European parliament has already voted to introduce quotas to secure at least 30 percent women board members by 2015 and 40 percent by 2020.
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Gender equality - in our generation?

Mar 08, 2012 Nordic women are far ahead in most areas, yet powerful positions remain male-dominated. Nordic Labour Journal’s barometer shows how women have lost political power in the past year. It’s not a trend change, but a warning signal. Nordic governments want better gender balance, but how to achieve it?
Active old age and solidarity between generations tema

Active old age and solidarity between generations

Feb 09, 2012 Never before has so many lived for so long and been so healthy into such old age. In a few years there will be far more centenarians and people who will live for 20 to 30 years past their retirement age. Is Europe ready?
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