Ikea buys six German wind farms

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Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Boeing, Cisco, Citi, DLA Piper, Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Manpower, Marriott, Mastercard,…

Child’s play to nurture young engineers

First lady joins official ranks of Venice's gondoliers

Tunisia, a successful model still little known

Technology jobs for women

Winds of change head for the workplace

Entrepreneurship and Gender

EU science under Belgium

WORKCARE: Social quality and the changing relationship between work, care and welfare in Europe

Billion-euro boost to EU science

genSET Consensus Seminars > Participants

20 questions: Anne Lauvergeon, Areva

New EU law gives self-employed workers maternity and pension benefits

Self-employed workers and their partners will now enjoy the right to maternity leave under new EU legislation. The Directive on self-employed workers and assisting spouses repeals and replaces an earlier law and improves the social protection…

Out-of-the-box executive search

Women: Government in bid to increase economic participation

Gender Differences in Educational Outcomes

Study on the Measures Taken and the Current Situation in Europe

Training female entrepreneurs

Lessons from the FEIW project

Dads who take parental leave can help boost women's pay

As reported in WVON just over a week ago, 85 per cent of men in Sweden take parental leave. That is a staggering proportion but even more interesting is the effect it has had on women's pay. 

According to an article today in Gender Across Borders, a recent study has found that a mother's future earnings increase on average by 7 per cent for every month that the father takes leave. 

And that's not all. Another study has shown that the experience of taking "baby leave" has had an impact on how Swedish men view their own masculinity.

ENAR report on promoting equality in employment

On 9 June 2010, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) published the report of its Ad Hoc Expert Group on Promoting Equality in Employment in the European Parliament.