Tag: "diversity"

TIAW World of Difference 2011 Winner Profile: Geraldine Bown

| April 30, 2012 | Comments (0)

As a result of her work in the past 20 years, Geraldine Bown has established herself as an expert on diversity, equal opportunity and women’s advancement. She is the founder of The Domino Consultancy Limited, which is focused on diversity management for businesses; a former president of the European Women’s Management Development Network; one of the founding members of the European Institute for Managing Diversity; and the managing director of Domino Perspectives Limited.

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There is a way to get more women on boards, but you won’t like it

| October 22, 2011 | Comments (1)
There is a way to get more women on boards, but you won’t like it

I’m talking about quotas. Dropping the Q-word sends many professionals, men and women alike, back to their corner offices in a huff. Like a bad-tasting medicine, however, the threat of treatment may instigate radical change.
For the record, I believe corporate board appointments should be allocated to qualified individuals only. But if a percentage of those qualified board members were required to be women, wouldn’t that motivate companies to search harder to find suitable candidates or at least groom women for these roles?

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