Gender Diversity News Bulletin

Welcome to the weekly gender diversity news round up from Opportunity Now . Sent to you each week as a benefit of your membership to Opportunity Now, this bulletin keeps you right up to date with media coverage of gender equality and diversity related issues, both UK based and global. 
 

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Opportunity Now Excellence in Practice Awards 2011

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The good cheer felt by the Treasury at yesterday's unemployment figures, which less bad than expected, will be tempered by the knowledge that some groups are being hit worse than others. The number of women claiming Jobseekers' Allowance is at its highest for 15 years.

Workplace inequalities have proliferated since iron curtain came down but today's freedoms are preferred to restrictions of the past

Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo Inc., criticized fellow corporate leaders for failing to try hard enough to increase the ranks of women in upper management.

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Women are crucial to US economic growth. Indeed, since women’s participation in the workforce took off, in the 1970s, their productivity has accounted for about a quarter of current GDP.

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Some 14 months after Haiti's earthquake, activists say there is an ongoing epidemic of rape and gender-based violence (GBV) in the country's more than 1,000 squalid displaced persons camps, where nearly a million people are still awaiting permanent housing.