All posts tagged "Women leaders"

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  Scotland passes gender equality law for public boards

  Legislation to require equal representation of women on public sector boards in Scotland has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. MSPs voted by 88 to 28 in favour of the

  • Posted March 7, 2018
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  Civil servants to benefit first in Icelandic equal pay reforms

  Government ministries and agencies are set to be among the first wave of organisations implementing Iceland’s new legislation mandating equal pay for women. The Nordic nation is the first country

  • Posted January 17, 2018
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  Civil services are making progress on gender diversity – but those gains are under threat

  The Women Leaders Index shows that most G20 countries are improving gender equality amongst civil service leaders. But speakers at the Index’s formal launch warned of the ever-louder voices of

  • Posted December 14, 2017
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  UN launches public sector women’s leadership ranking

  Scandinavian countries have taken the top three spots in a new global league table of women’s leadership across the public sector. In the Global Women Leadership Initiative Index, Sweden was

  • Posted December 6, 2017
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  UN chief sets out gender parity goals

  The head of the United Nations, secretary general António Guterres, has launched a new strategy to achieve gender parity among its senior leadership by 2021 and across all grades by

  • Posted November 23, 2017
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  New Zealand PM vows to close public sector gender pay gap by 2021

  New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has set a target of achieving equal pay for women in the country’s public service jobs within four years. Ardern, who is the world’s

  • Posted November 15, 2017
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  UK aid minister resigns over secret meetings with Israeli officials

  Priti Patel was forced to resign on Wednesday as Britain’s international development secretary Britain’s international development secretary Priti Patel was forced to resign on Wednesday, after she breached ministerial rules

  • Posted November 10, 2017
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  Diversity growing fast in senior Canadian jobs, report finds

  The share of executive posts in Canada’s federal public service held by women and people from ethnic minorities has increased rapidly over the past decade, a new study has found.

  • Posted November 2, 2017
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  EU launches inquiry into UK offshore tax scheme

  The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether a British scheme that exempts multinational corporations from some tax avoidance rules breaks EU competition law. The probe will focus on

  • Posted November 1, 2017
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  Hong Kong to recruit over 5,000 civil servants

  Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to increase the number of civil servants in the territory by three per cent during the next financial year. More

  • Posted October 30, 2017
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