All posts tagged "gender equality"

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  Research reveals gender inequality among diplomatic corps

  New research has revealed a stark gender gap among the senior ranks of governments’ foreign offices, with women on average comprising 25% of ambassadors but 43% of all diplomatic staff.

  • Posted October 30, 2020
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  Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs

  Mastercard’s latest report reveals how the COVID-19 crisis could set back a generation of women in business and features top performing economies and case studies of how governments around the

  • Posted October 20, 2020
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  Employee associations urge US justice department to tackle pay disparities

  US justice department employee associations are urging the department’s leaders to stop asking job applicants for their salary histories, in a bid to stamp out pay disparities among workers. Six

  • Posted September 4, 2020
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  Gender pay gap widens at four UK departments, falls at 13

  Four central UK government departments have reported that their gender pay gap grew over the last year, while the gap shrank at 13 departments and remained at zero at the

  • Posted February 4, 2020
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  Japan to encourage civil servants to take more paternity leave

  The Japanese government is to begin encouraging male civil servants to take more than one month childcare leave from 2020, government sources told Japan Today last week. The government is

  • Posted November 4, 2019
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  Behavioural science could boost gender equality, says OECD

  A ‘behavioural insights’ approach to promoting gender equality in public services could help overcome the shortcomings of targets and regulatory approaches, according to a report by the OECD. The organisation

  • Posted March 17, 2019
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  New Zealand forging ahead with civil service gender equality

  More than half of New Zealand’s civil service chief executive roles are now filled by women, the government has announced. Of the 33 public service departments across government, 17 will

  • Posted December 10, 2018
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  Gender imbalance remains in Nepalese civil service recruitment

  The Nepalese civil service has seen its proportion of women rise from eight per cent a decade ago to 23% last year, new figures reveal – though clear evidence of

  • Posted November 12, 2018
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  New Zealand launches cross-government gender pay principles

  Pay rates should be transparent, employment practices free from gender bias and the value of unpaid work recognised, according to a set of civil service gender pay principles launched by

  • Posted July 5, 2018
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  Departmental chiefs reshuffled in New Zealand

  New Zealand state services commissioner Peter Hughes has unveiled a series of personnel changes among the country’s top civil servants, with the direct appointment of five public service chief executives.

  • Posted June 14, 2018
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