Focus: International Women's Day 2012 |
If today’s global workforce is very diverse and increasingly female, why don’t top organizational levels mirror this trend?
How can organizations around the world truly walk the diversity talk?
Find out on 2 March when Deloitte’s Global Diversity team hosts the 4th annual International Women’s Day (IWD) webcast: Empower. Invest. Accelerate. Embedding diversity into the organizational culture to advance women.
The event, taking place from 8-9 a.m. EST, will feature distinguished business and government leaders from Asia, Europe, and the Americas discussing the value imperative of diversity and spotlight the bold moves organizations can make to embed it into organizational cultures and support the advancement of women.
Register here for the 2 March 2012 webcast and join us in this salute to women leaders, especially the women of Deloitte, on International Women’s Day.
IWD 2011 in review
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Empower. Invest. Accelerate. The gender dividend: Women as the next smart business strategy Download 2011: video (112MB) | IWD toolkit (PDF) | webcast transcript (PDF) |
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The gender dividend: Making the business case for investing in women This series of papers from Global Public Sector examines successful models for investing in and integrating women, and lays out the rationale behind why governments and organizations must look to women as key to economic growth. |
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Women in the boardroom: A global perspective This report from Deloitte's Global Center for Corporate Governance examines the pursuit of gender parity in boardrooms around the world and provides an overview of initiatives under way in 12 countries. The study is among the most comprehensive conducted on boardroom diversity |
Additional links
International Women's Day
Official site.
A history of International Women's Day
The United Nations perspective.