PWN Global Newsletter Q1 2020
HAPPY NEW YEAR, one and all!
Dear PWN
friends,
Welcome to another PWN decade! We look forward to
working with you to accelerate gender-balanced leadership in business
and society.
Our mission
continues and becomes increasingly important. At the same time, the
world continues to evolve rapidly. In the last decade, gender balanced
leadership and gender equality became a much talked about topic. The
campaigns, hashtags and the rise of women's empowerment networks and
communities have demonstrated the need for men and women to work
side by side towards a balanced society.
Last autumn,
during our diversity lab in Dublin, we discussed the need to pay
attention to the rise of technology. We know that our world is
constantly changing but the pace of change has increased exponentially
with technology becoming one of the influencing determining factors of
how our society develops. The rate at which we must adopt and adapt
to new technology far outpaces 10, 20 or 50 years ago. People expect
things to change rapidly, which means our pace of change needs to
accelerate as well.
Emerging
technologies like AI, Blockchain and Quantum are continuing to impact
our world more than we can imagine. The way this technology is
designed and implemented determines how we shape our future but also
how gender, ethnicity and age, like many other differentiators, will
be incorporated without increasing inequality and biases.
At this
moment, only 15 per cent of women have a role in the design and
deployment of AI-based solutions, which inevitably can cause biases in
automated processes and decision making structures. Aside from design
and development and other IT-related jobs, it will take us more than
200 years to achieve full equality in the workplace. Wouldn't it be
great if we, the PWN community, could speed up this change? If we can
make little changes that we can call our legacy.
Again, our
mission continues, creating awareness, reaching out to help make a
change and shine a light on the people who are role models and
ambassadors for our cause.
As one of
the female leaders of a worldwide travel company states:
"There
is an essential need for female leadership to help achieve a truly
balanced workforce across the technology industry. As we know, more
female leaders and women on boards helps lead to greater creativity
and less groupthink and provides a broader view when making key
decisions. But most importantly, more female leaders mean more role
models for young women and girls, which is simply critical if we want
to achieve parity." Gillian
Tans, Chairwomen, Booking.com
We invite
you to join us on our journey towards a world where gender-balanced
leadership is the norm. We would like to welcome you to join us at our
Gender Balanced Leadership Awards Ceremony in Dublin, or at one of the
many events across our city networks around the world.
Enjoy this edition and please remember to forward
it to your friends and colleagues who you think will enjoy it
too.
Many thanks and best regards for a wonderful new
year!
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Carina Furlong
Co-President,
PWN Global
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Sheila Gemin
Co-President
PWN Global
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*The Q1 intro was written by Sheila Gemin.
Entrepreneurship
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One of PWN
Global's biggest bodies of work, to launch in 2020, is the Virtual
Entrepreneurship Program (VEP). Initially started in 2018, by PWN
Global's then VP Entrepreneurship Betina
Mazzarino... |
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Engaging
Men
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We are happy
to announce the addition of volunteer and PWN Frankfurt member, Bahar
Dragan, to the PWN Global Engaging Men team. She is joining this team
to support the development of the work we... |
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PWN Global
Volunteer Opportunities
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I'm sure we
can all remember that one wonderful teacher that we had at school? Or,
that amazing first boss? Or that incredible mentor that inspired us to
go further than we had ever hoped? |
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Do you love
telling stories? We need you! Do you want us to tell your story to
inspire others? We need you too! Storytelling in business is vital -
and in order to grow our global network... |
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As we launch
into this new decade, many of us will turn our attention to our long
terms goals. What did the last 10 years bring us and what are we
hoping to achieve in the next 10. When we ponder... |
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PWN Global
Research
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In order for
us to build the right programs, we need your insights. We need as much
diversity of thought as possible to make our programs as valuable and
impactful as possible. Can you help us by... |
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City Network
News
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January is
traditionally a time when we reflect on past lessons and set goals or
intentions for the coming year – things we would like to achieve or
do better. It’s no different for PWN Dublin. |
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PWN Istanbul,
became a stakeholder in the “Gender Equality in Advertisement
Council”, founded by the Advertisers Association (RVD), in November
2017 in order to carry out its activities to promote... |
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PWN Global
Gender Balanced Leadership Awards
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As promised,
we're ready to do it all again in 2020. This year, we will be hosting
the PWN Global Gender Balanced Leadership Awards on 12th November 2020
at Clontarf Castle in Dublin. To find out... |
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Kilinç Law
& Consulting was extremely interested to hear about the success of
the inaugural PWN Global Gender Balanced Leadership Awards in 2019. As
a five-year-old firm with our young and dynamic... |
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PWN Corporate
Partner News
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Entrepreneurship and gender equality are engrained in
EU Business School’s (EU) DNA. We believe that the cultivation of
entrepreneurial skills and core leadership values will greatly assist
women... |
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Expert's
Corner
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I wrote the
book on How To Overcome Stress and I wish I’d have had this in 2013
when I reached total burnout. Burnout can be scary, it’s
debilitating and sadly too many people are reaching
this... |
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PWN Member
Offers
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Driving the
gender diversity agenda is a top priority for most organisations today
- but while many organisations have good intentions, optimising gender
balance is not straightforward. Join... |
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Book
Review
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Norma was
constantly frustrated and unhappy about living on the bread line. She
had worked for banks for over two decades, and while she struggled to
make ends meet, they continued to make money.... |
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News Round
Up
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The need for digital skills is an opportunity to keep
more women in the workforce and ensure they reach more senior
roles. |
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Not all “networking” is the same, and maybe the
word itself needs attuning. The more your network reflects an inner
circle of women, the more effective it may be in supporting your
growth and... |
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As women increase their presence and influence in the
workplace, is the label "female leader" a hindrance? |
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Ada Calhoun’s “Why We Can’t Sleep” documents
the parameters of the “new midlife crisis” as women struggle with
outsize demands and expectations. |
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The road to the C-suite for women, and in particular
women of color, is still rocky. Four chief human resource officers
explain how they are smoothing the path. |
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