Equal Opportunities International: Volume 11 Issue 6

Lessons from Successful Women Business Leaders

Sandra L Dawson, Brian H. Kleiner

Women hold only two per cent of the senior management positions in American companies. What special qualities do these two per cent of women have which have helped them make it to…

Ensuring Equality of Opportunity in Management Development: Realising Potential

Christina Townsend, Andrew Sails

Gender bias in the management school lecture room is one major hurdle facing aspiring women managers (“Getting the Basics Right”, Training Tomorrow, July 1992). But the experience…

Women and Sustainable Development

Ruth Meena

Sustainable Development refers to a development process which enhances people's capacity to create and consume wealth on a lasting basis. It requires, among other things, a…

Women and Organisational Leadership

Jenny A. McCauslan, Brian H. Kleiner

In most businesses effective leadership is still considered to be tough, competitive, rational, impersonal, strategic, etc.— in short, the traditional male model. Recently…

Pay Equity and Job Comparisons in Canada

Quebec was the first Canadian jurisdiction to legislate on pay equality. It did so through the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedom, in 1976, a passive legislation since…