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, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Nice-Côte d’Azur, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna.
EuropeanPWN has published 8 books in the Women@Work series and has been widely quoted in the media as opinion leaders on women’s professional progress.
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
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Editorial: Solving the supply issues for women in top positions
The perceived lack of supply
Sometimes an expression can hit you like a ton of bricks. That was what happened to me when I attended the International Colloquium on the UK FTSE 100 Mentoring Programme in London. Although there are many qualified women in the talent pool, very few make it to the board and many companies and executive searchers continue to complain about the lack of qualified candidates. More
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EuropeanPWN joins European Commission’s Network of Women on Decisionmaking in Politics and the Economy
The group aims to promote women in decision-making positions in politics and the economy across Europe. The inaugural meeting was opened by Equal Opportunities Commissioner Vladimír Špidla and by Zita Gurmai, Vice-Chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström and Budget Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaité joined the network for a discussion over lunch. First of all, this “network of networks” will allow us to increase our impact in fulfilling our mission, which is to promote the professional progress of women in business More and read the press release here.
NEWS THINK TANK GROUP
How Did You Manage Your First 100 Days In a New Job?
Our self-coaching tool MATRIX – 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!
Women leading change: Angela Knight, Chief Executive British Bankers’Association
More than a hundred CWN members and guests gathered for an historic meeting of City Women’s Network at Merrill Lynch in the City of London to launch our 30th Anniversary programme of events.
Introduced by CWN’s Patron, Janet Gaymer, the Public Appointments Commissioner for England and Wales, Angela Knight, the Chief Executive of the British Bankers’ Association gave an inspiring talk about her own experiences as a businesswoman over the past thirty years and talked about how the role of women has changed. More
THINK TANK GROUP
Recognition and reward for efforts key to women’s career satisfaction
The Think Tank Group “What is it like for working women in your country” has finalized its survey. It concludes that women, across regions and demographics, desire first and foremost work environments which are, ideally, meritocratic and reward them fairly vis-à-vis their male colleagues for their efforts. However, most women believe this type of environment does not reflect reality due to the large pay-gap that continues to exist between men and women. Achieving parity in pay is a much more important driver of career satisfaction for women than ensuring strong social benefits, such as government run programs, child care, etc… more
Introducing EuropeanPWN’s BusinessXchange
Women mean business. We are delighted to announce the launch of a new functionality on our fantastic online platform : BusinessXchange.
BusinessXchange is designed to help members network for business. Whether you are the founder of a start-up in search of investors, an international tax advisor in Madrid, a manager of an Italian shoe manufacturer looking for distributors in the UK, or a coach who wants to advertise her next workshop in Paris, BusinessXchange will allow you to introduce your business in a short and crisp way, and to specify the type of contacts you are looking for: customers, suppliers, partners, distributors or investors.
This searchable directory is a resource for all members — those offering their services and those looking for providers. Just imagine that all 3,500 EuropeanPWN members’ businesses are listed – it will be our first resource when we urgently need to find a PR agency in a foreign city!
As a directory directly linked to the members who represent the business listed, BusinessXchange is unique in a community network. It was designed according to your specifications and to meet your needs for efficient and non-intrusive business promotion and business exchange.
For great business deals, we invite you to check BusinessXchange. You will find it on the menu of the members-only platform, together with greater detail on how it works. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. Please send these to websteering@europeanpwn.net
Think Tank Groups: participate to the surveys
Both surveys will run until end April and are gathering information from members and non-members – feel free to distribute the information around you. Results will be published in EuropeanPWN newsletter.
How do women network?
Networking is key to a successful and balanced career. Some of us do it instinctively, others are trying to master it and the rest are still questioning. Measuring is key for understanding the state of the art, this is why we are running this survey ’How do women network?’: anyone can answer. Feel free to pass it to your own contact list! Click here for the survey (approx. 10 minutes)
International mobility
This survey will help depict values and issues of mobility for women; such knowledge being useful for HR departments, as well as for women themselves. It targets any woman having lived an expatriation, whether as the assignee or as the accompanying spouse. To complete the survey click here (approx. 4 minutes)
Board members address key issues on corporate governance at first EuropeanPWN – IMD Board Room Round Tables
Information gathering, long-term value creation and board composition are the key issues facing board members in the upcoming years. This notion was the consensus opinion expressed by 15 prominent female board members from different industries, different nationalities and from various European countries during the first Boardroom Roundtable discussion in Amsterdam organized
by the European Professional Women’s Network in cooperation with IMD, a leading business school based in Switzerland. More
EuropeanPWN publishes its 8th book in the Women@Work series, ‘Women on Boards – Moving Mountains’
EuropeanPWN provides compelling evidence for the need to promote more women board members to European companies. The EuropeanPWN BoardWomen monitor conducted by Egon Zehnder in 2006 showed that only 8.5% of corporate boardroom seats in the top 300 European companies are held by women. In “Women on Boards – Moving Mountains”, EuropeanPWN in association with Mercer, analysed the profiles of the 100 top women compared to their male counterparts and provides advice for both companies and women on board diversity. More…
PRESS PRESENTATION WOB - MOVING MOUNTAINS
PRESS RELEASE WOB - MOVING MOUNTAINS
EuropeanPWN recognized as one of Europe’s leading voices!
EuropeanPWN’s president Mirella Visser has been nominated by the prestigious European Voices (a publication from the Economist Group) as European of the Year 2007 and Campaigner of the Year 2007.
The jury nominated EuropeanPWN “for promoting the professional progress of women and gender diversity programmes to help women and corporations succeed together”. Read the official Nomination Text here. More…
The winners have been announced at the Award Ceremony on November 27 in Brussels.
See the first article in European Voice here
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The EV50 – 2007’ magazine may be downloaded here
"EV50 presentation of Mirella Visser as campaigner of the year"
News
BoardWomen Monitor 2008
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, ...
EuropeanPWN joins European Commission's Network of Women on Decisionmaking in Politics and the Economy
EuropeanPWN has chosen to be an active partner in the recently launched European Commission’s network of Women in Decision-making in Politics and the Economy for more than one ...
Editorial May 2008: Solving the supply issues for women in top positions
“The perceived lack of supply” Sometimes an expression can hit you like a ton of bricks. That was what happened to me when I attended the International Colloquium on the UK FTSE ...
