As it is not just International Women's Day (IWD) today but the 100th anniversary of the first IWD ever held, the sheer scale of events, debate and activities going on around the world means that it is possible to find something on pretty much every conceivable theme.
As far as workplace gender equality is concerned, here are a few of the things published or occuring that caught my eye today:
- A Women in Tesco blog has been launched. So far, it looks to have been set up by the company with no participation from employees so far, with posts such as "a great place to work". But with Tesco one of the biggest private sector employer of women in the UK, it could certainly be very interesting if Tesco's workers start participating.
- A special from the Guardian's datablog team on the gender pay gap, which invites you to play around with the official data from the ONS's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
- A short briefing on the gender-specific concequences of the recent economic crisis (PDF format, 151Kb) from the International Labour Organisation.
- A couple of heavy but useful papers: one on part-time working in Europe from Eurofound (published in January 2011), which contains a lot of useful statistics and another just out from the OECD on the time spent doing all kinds of "unpaid work" by men and women around the world.
- A special IWD poll published today by Ipsos MORI which has some interesting findings on the workplace.
On XpertHR, we have recently published an analysis of the gender pay gap (subscription required), which supplements an analysis of the latest official statistics with data from the ONS on the pay gap going back to 1971. And last week, we published an updated and enhanced model equal pay policy (subscription required) for employers to use.
What has caught your eye this International Women's Day? Have I missed your blog post on workplace gender equality? Please let me know by using the comments box below.
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Comments (2)
Here's a blog post considering the significance of gender difference in e-learning:-
http://www.brightwave.co.uk/blog/vive-la-difference-celebrating-international-womens-day
Posted by Peter Styles | March 8, 2011 11:22 AM
Posted on March 8, 2011 11:22
Thanks very much for the link, Peter. I'm sure you are right that it would help if gender were addressed and acknowledged more explicitly in workplace learning, although I suppose there is a need to avoid confirming stereotypes about gender-based styles of learning at the same time. I think it is also important for employers to try and make training as accessible as possible for part-time workers.
Posted by Sarah Welfare | March 8, 2011 1:05 PM
Posted on March 8, 2011 13:05