Hello everyone, Anne-Marie Slaugher's recent essay, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” incited vehement and very polarized reactions from readers. I personally didn't find anything particularly surprising in the essay (except Slaughter's underlying assumption that life should be easy)....
Is it possible for an Asian man to be prejudiced against Asian people? For a woman to show bias against other women? Well, according to Professor Binna Kandola, it is. And, in his new book, “The Value of Difference”, which...
Last month, ahead of International Women’s Day, we launched an on-line survey which invited responses to questions around the impact of the global recession on women, the workplace and the future of work. The full results of the survey will...
Regular readers of the Gender Agenda will recall that, in 2008, PwC was a very proud global corporate sponsor of the ground breaking book, “Why Women Mean Business” by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland. Our global CEO, Sam DiPiazza, endorsed...
Hello again and Happy New Year. I hope everyone enjoyed a lovely festive break …. I certainly did, and I even spared my family the threatened Christmas Day viewing of “Closing the Gender Gap.” To close the year, here are...
Last night, I gave myself a bit of a break from all things connected with Planet Video (although work on the DVD and the on-line version of the film continues…) and I went along to the launch of PwC UK’s...
Hello again I had a very relaxing few days off work last week, and caught up with my reading (see below for a book recommendation!), also enjoying some spring sunshine in the English countryside. While I was away, my wonderful...
Great to hear from Alison and Avivah that the European launches of the book “Why Women Mean Business” are going so well. Following the successful event in Brussels in early February, this week saw the WWMB roadshow reach Paris, in...
This week saw the UK launch of Alison Maitland and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s new book: “Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of our next Economic Revolution”. Here at PwC, we’ve been big fans of the book since I first read...
This week, I’ve been in New York for a series of internal and external meetings, along with, or so it seems, most of the UK, busily spending their comedy dollars in the shops. However, in between the meetings, I can...
