At 76.7 per cent, female participation in the workforce is at an all-time high in Switzerland. Yet despite their numbers, women are not rising through the ranks and few make it to decision-making level. What is really to blame for the leadership gap – mothers’ family commitments or a hostile corporate environment?
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Respect, power, influence and a family to boot – to the outside world Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former policy planning director for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had it all. What she didn’t have was time to spend with her family, something women in Switzerland have in relative abundance. Writing in the US magazine The Atlantic…
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The norm for mothers of young children is to work part-time, mostly less than 50 per cent. Fewer than one in ten fathers work part-time (see sidebar). It is rare for women to ramp up to full-time again when their children are older and reap the career benefits. swissinfo.ch spoke to four mothers in four different situations. Natalia…
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Switzerland has ranked tenth out of 135 countries in a World Economic Forum (WEF) review of gender equality achievements. But still there’s a lot to be done, particularly when it comes to managerial and directors jobs. Discussions on introducing quotas aren’t new, but this time it’s the economy giving momentum to the issue. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
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