Welcome to EuropeanPWN, a unique on-line networking and learning community for women and companies seeking to promote women’s professional progress.
EuropeanPWN is Europe’s dynamic fast-growing online and offline networking and leadership development platform for professional women of all sectors and industries. With 3500 members and more than 90 nationalities, EuropeanPWN organizes around 600 events a year in 17 cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London CWN,
London EuropeanPWN, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Nice-Côte d’Azur, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. EuropeanPWN has published 11 books in the Women@Work series and has been widely quoted in the media as opinion leaders on women’s professional progress.
Editorial June 2009
Women expats twice as happy as trailing spouses
Women expats are often labelled as one group. However, when it comes to happiness in their professional lives, significant differences exist between women expats who moved abroad for their own work and those who followed their partners’ career opportunity. This is what EuropeanPWN found when analysing Expatica.com’s annual survey on expatriate women. More
Women Leading Change
Companies Leading Change: Xerox – First ever woman-to-woman transfer of CEO in Fortune 500
Xerox is making history; for the first time ever a female CEO will be succeeded by another female CEO when Anne Mulcahy hands over to Ursula Burns. On 17 June, Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox, visited the Netherlands where Xerox had organised a round table session with 20 senior business women to meet and network with her. Anne’s remarkable story is inspirational for this generation of women business leaders. Read more More
Role models, continue to push forward!
This was Anne Bouverot’s key piece of advice to the participants of the 4th meeting of the European Commission’s Network of Women in Decision-making in Politics and the Economy on April 3 in Brussels. Anne Bouverot, Executive Vice President of Mobile services at France Telecom Orange, was invited to give a presentation about the importance of role models for the advancement of women in decision-making functions in corporations. More
“Women@Work No. 10 Networking – the New Ariadne’s Thread”
Authors: Marie-Claude Peyrache and Cécile Demailly
128 pages, English December 2008
Can one succeed in business (professionally) without networking? To make diversity and parity a reality, women need to practice and master this art. “Networking – the New Ariadne’s Thread”, explores the long and rich history of women’s networks, presents women’s unique way to network and compiles a must-have set of advice on how to network and set-up a networking organisation.
Book also available in French: “Women@Work No. 11 Réseaux – le nouveau fil d’Ariane”
More info & excerpts and how to order
Women Can Bring Europe’s IT Sector to the Next Level
By Clara Ko, member EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam
While most reports on women in IT concentrate on the need to meet the demand in quantity of IT professionals, less documented are the significant values that women can contribute to the quality and future success of the field – by bridging communications, enabling user-driven design, increasing innovation through diversity, and facilitating organisational change. More
EuropeanPWN events calendar
Third Bi-annual EuropeanPWN BoardWomen Monitor 2008
in partnership with Egon Zehnder International
- Overall progress remains glacially slow
- Norway by far Europe’s champion
- Companies score better on international diversity than gender diversity
One out of ten board members is female
The top 300 European companies now have 9.7% of women on their boards, up from 8.5% in 2006 and 8% in 2004. Of a total 5,146 board seats, women occupy 501. European champion Norway jumped to having 44.2% women on boards as a result of quota legislation . Without Norway, the European growth rate falls back to 9.1% confirming the average growth rate of around 0.5 percentage points over each two year period from 2004 onwards. This development clearly demonstrates that quotas are an effective way to accelerate growth of female representation on boards. More
Download the presentation here
Download the press release here
For more information contact us: BWM2008@europeanpwn.net
NEWS THINK TANK GROUP
EuropeanPWN and the ESSEC, with the support of the Women’s Forum, collaborate to research on
How women use technology and new communication tools, how it impacts their careers and work/life balance, and how enterprises address gender diversity issues with technology.
Help our research with filling the 10mn survey Also please share around: the more responses, the more accurate findings!
THANK YOU !
EuropeanPWN, February 2009
How Did You Manage Your First 100 Days In a New Job?
Our self coaching tool – made of 12 steps to follow and 5 issues to consider during those first 100 crucial days of your career in a company – is online now. Have fun surfing through this tool!
Think Tank Group report: What is it Like for Working Women in Your Country?
France Summary
While working women around the globe share many common experiences, local situations strongly influence how women view and experience their professional career. What are the local dynamics that truly shape women’s working experiences? Do women across countries differ in terms of what they’re looking for in their working lives? These are the questions our think tank group is working to understand. EuropeanPWN ran an online survey from March to October last year; 410 women participated from 58 different countries, 60% being French, US and Germans citizens. We extracted the responses from the French women to build the below results. Read more here
News
Editorial June 2009
The image of a trailing partner has never really appealed to me. Trailing has a passive ring to it as it as it suggests that a person gives up her or his professional life to ...
Women Leading Change: Italy
The Professional Women’s Association of Milan was founded in 1987 by a group of international professional women. The first meetings not only gave participants a chance to share ...
Companies Leading Change: Xerox
Anne started her career at Chase Manhattan bank where she soon felt that the banking environment was not conducive to developing her talents successfully. Her move to Xerox proved ...
