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 Foreword : Join the Forum JUMP next Thursday! Editorial : Claims that women are inherently more cautious are deeply troubling Advance your career : Minimale aangroei van vrouwen in bestuursraden Advance your career : Gérez votre identité numérique Advance your career : Five power tools for effortless selling Build your own business : Ze zijn er weer, de "Dochters van Venus" Build your own business : What does your logo say about you? Jobs : Senior Manager Financial Services Risk Management Jobs : Accountants with 6 or more years of experience Jobs : vzw Amazone - adjunct directeur/directrice Active mother : The bad mother police and what to do about them Feel good ! : De Brusselse, First Urban Woman Jogging - 24/05/09 Feel good ! : Vivre avec le syndrome de fatigue: l'histoire de Mia Feel good ! : Get organized & gain thirty more minutes a day Feel good ! : Leathers&Letters, Delvaux's limited edition Women's networks : How to network: 7 tips for the networking-shy Women's networks : Le réseau: un levier de succès pour les hauts gestionnaires Companies & gender : Geef je stem een stem! Companies & gender : The supervisory board member after the crisis: young, female and non-smoking? Companies & gender : What would happen if Women ran Wall Street? Companies & gender : La ministre Milquet lutte contre l’écart salarial entre femmes et hommes Inspiring women : Rita El Khayat, auteure et éditrice Inspiring women : Exclusive interview with Paloma Picasso Show solidarity : Crise économique: 22 millions de femmes risquent de perdre leur emploi Books : Les bonnes de Paris, un livre de Rita El Khayat Books : Don’t Eat the Marshmallow... Yet!, Joachim de Posada and Ellen Singer Books : Een praktische gids voor het leven Agenda : W.I.N. Global Leadership Conference, Prague, 8-10 October 2009: price action till April 30! Agenda : 8th Pan Afro Arab Congress for Business & Professional Women & 8th Mediterranean 23-25 April 2009 Agenda : Inscrivez votre film ! Le Festival Elles tournent Agenda : Debat Vrouwenemancipatie en multiculturaliteit, 23 April 2009 in Brussel
 It’s the biggest event dedicated to Women’s careers and improving organisations’ performance through increased diversity in workplace leadership. Through a series of HR Seminars, Conferences, Workshops and Networking facilities, we both identify for the corporate level the issues that need to be tackled and provide space for practical thinking and solutions-oriented activities. At an individual level, JUMP provides you with a unique blend of advice, tools and networking possibilities, which will enable you to improve your negotiation and leadership skills, achieve your goals and meet the right people. A range of inspirational speakers offer their expertise for the third edition of JUMP Forum. Among more than 30 speakers, we have presenters arriving from the US including Eleanor Tabi Haller-Jorden, the General Manager Catalyst Europe and Carol Frohlinger, CEO Negotiating Women and co-author of « Her place at the table ». Bringing a European focus are Helsinki’s Elisabeth Rehn, Presidential Candidate in Finland and First Woman Minister of Defence in the world; she has devoted her life to building peace in conflict areas, protecting women's rights and advancing their political and societal leadership. We also have Ellen Söentken, Entrepreneur, and Author of «De zeven ondeugden van vrouwelijke managers» coming from Amsterdam. This year we are focusing on the current dramatic economic situation by highlighting the economic incentive behind empowering Women. « Greater representation of Women in senior leadership positions within governments, companies and financial institutions is vital not only to find solutions to the current economic turmoil, but to stave off such crises in future. » said Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. Iceland understood the lesson. It appointed a new female prime minister and two Women to run the two banks created by the government to save the country from bankruptcy. « It’s typical. The Men make the mess and the Women come in to clean it up. » (Financial Times) What other crisis do we need to take advantage of the talents of Women? If Women can truly fulfill all their talents, that means that Men and Women are finally escaping from stereotypes to become their own true selves, in other words, to be unique! Thanks to this collective transformation, Women and Men have never been closer to each other than now. We are currently moving towards a new collective and individual balancing of our masculinity/femininity. What’s good for Women is good for business and good for Men!
 From Profs Herminia Ibarra, Lynda Gratton and Martha Maznevski. Published in the Financial Times, March 10 2009 - www.ft.comSir, As senior business school professors, involved in research and teaching on diversity and gender in leadership, we would like to register our dismay at the quality of debate on the role of women in the financial crisis. Specifically, we question the basis for current speculation that the meltdown might have been averted had more women been running the business world. Let us be clear, the business case for diversity is now well-established. Organisations that allow the best talent to enter, move up and express itself do better. This is far from being the case in many of our largest global corporations – and we believe that organisations which move quickly and efficiently to eradicate the barriers will be winners, crisis or no crisis. But we are deeply troubled by claims that women are inherently more risk-averse or cautious or prudent than men, and that this essential nature somehow makes women more suited to leading in a downturn (see, for example, “Why women managers shine in a downturn”, March 2). Such assertions have little or no empirical support in a business context. These speculations also come with dangerous implications. Are men therefore better suited to managing growth or leading businesses through healthier economic times? We’d be the first to argue for greater inclusiveness and a more diverse leadership to lead us out of this mess. But let us beware of perpetuating unfounded stereotypes along the way.
Met gemiddeld zeven procent vrouwen in Belgische bestuursraden van grote bedrijven scoort ons land beroerd in de European Board Women Monitor 2008. Slechts 44 procent van de Belgische grote bedrijven heeft vrouwen in de bestuursraad. Voor de vergelijking: in Europa zetelen vrouwelijke bestuursleden in gemiddeld drievierde van de ondernemingen. Voor de negen Belgische bedrijven gaat het om welgeteld tien vrouwelijke bestuursleden op een totaal van 142 bestuurszitjes. Via de European Board Women Monitor maakt het European Professionals Women’s Network (EPWN) i.s.m. Egon Zehnder International om de twee jaar een stand van zaken op. Het aandeel vrouwen in bestuursraden in de Europese top 300 bedrijven bedraagt nu 9,7 procent. Geen een op tien vrouwen dus. Read more
 par Jacques Morin de www.lisecardinal.comLes réseaux sociaux sont là pour rester et prendront une importance de plus en plus grande dans nos vies. Il faut donc « faire avec »... et le faire avec prudence. Bien peu d'Internautes ignorent ce que sont DeviantArt, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Habbo, Tagged.com, Windows Live Spaces et MySpace. Ces sites de réseautage social ont tous le même objectif : permettre à des personnes ayant les mêmes intérêts de communiquer, de discuter et de réseauter. Read more
 by Julie Steelman on www.ladieswholaunch.comAs you embark on your new business venture, you might be wondering how you’re going to generate sales. You have this fantastic idea, but when you think about taking it out into the world and asking for money, you may feel queasy. There are five power tools that let you naturally tell your story and help you get paid lavishly for your idea. 1. Know your customer. Every product that was ever sold provided either a benefit, solved a problem, or supported an emotional need. Understand what problem the customer needs solved, what benefit they can gain from your product, or what emotional need the product supports. Use this information to create value for your product. Tell the customer how and why they’ll benefit from the use of your product. Once the customer agrees with you, ask for their business. Remember, you explain the value of your product every day to your friends and family because it’s the driving factor in creating your idea. Read more
  12 nieuwe gezichten, 12 nieuwe beroepen, 12 gedreven vrouwen tussen 24 en 54 die hun plekje veroveren of uitbreiden op de arbeidsmarkt. Ze zijn alleenstaand of getrouwd, met of zonder kinderen. Ze werken aan hun carrière en genieten van hun privéleven. Net als in het eerste seizoen volgt Vitaya inspirerende vrouwen op de werkvloer en ook thuis, want "achter elke succesvolle vrouw staat een sterke man"!Read more
  Ernst & Young is a service company of international size, with 135.000 professionals engaged in more than 140 countries. In Belgium Ernst & Young is one of the leading firms in four business areas: Audit, Tax, Accountancy, Transactions & Advisory Services. For more information, take a look at www.ey.com/beFor our Financial Services Risk Management department we are currently looking for a m/f Senior Manager Financial Services Risk Management. Read more
Ernst & Young is a service company of international size, with 135.000 professionals engaged in more than 140 countries. In Belgium Ernst & Young is one of the leading firms in four business areas: Audit, Tax, Accountancy, Transactions & Advisory Services. For more information, take a look at www.ey.com/beFor Ernst & Young GFAS (Accountants/Fiduciaire) in Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels and Gosselies, we are currently looking for Accountants with 6 or more years of experience. Read more
.jpg) Amazone is het nationaal "resource"-centrum voor de gelijkheid tussen vrouwen en mannen. De ondersteuning van vrouwenverenigingen en van groepen die werken aan gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen is de hoofdopdracht van de vzw Amazone. Met een team van 16 medewerkers biedt Amazone als ontmoetingscentrum, congrescentrum en informatiecentrum een ruime waaier van diensten aan: huisvesting en ICT infrastructuur voor vrouwenverenigingen; een congrescentrum met restaurant; samenwerking in nationale en internationale projecten; een hoofdzakelijk virtuele collectie van documenten en actualiteit inzake gelijke kansenbeleid V/M.Read more
One of the best things about Mommy Track’d is its attitude: its role as cheerleader for working moms. There may be disagreements among its writers and subscribers, but they don’t snipe and snarl at one another as they do on other sites called out by Ayelet Waldman in her new book, Bad Mother, scheduled for release in May. In it, she points to the vitriol directed these days at “bad mothers,” blasted at them in books and magazines and especially in blogs, where it’s possible to insult others with ease, anonymity, and apparent lack of consequence.. What is it, she asks, about parenting, about motherhood in particular, that allows us to indulge our inner scold about other people’s choices – about sleep training, feeding, schooling, immunizing, and on and on? Where did all this sanctimony and self-righteousness come from and what can we do to protect ourselves from it? In Waldman’s own words, she has written “ a book about the perils and joys of trying to be a decent mother in a world intent on making you feel like a bad one.” Read more
  www.de-brusselse.beLoopwedstrijden voor vrouwen zijn er in België niet veel. In Frankrijk en de Angelsaksische landen zijn ze echter wel bijzonder talrijk. Parijs gaf twaalf jaar geleden het startschot. Sindsdien heeft elke grote stad zijn ‘Mini-Parisienne’. Deze sportieve bevlieging is niet feministisch, maar draait vooral rond samen plezier maken en gezondheid. Read more
Il y a dix ans, Mia* était une femme heureuse, généreuse et occupée. Âgée de 28 ans, elle avait un emploi à temps plein, allait au gym trois jours par semaine et était très occupée avec ses amis et sa famille. L'été, elle faisait des excursions en canot, passait des week-ends à la campagne et ses vacances étaient très actives physiquement, comme faire de la randonnée dans le Grand Canyon et du camping en Islande. En juin de l'année de ses 28 ans, Mia a eu une mononucléose et avec ça, tout a changé. Durant la première partie de sa maladie, elle s'est sentie extrêmement faible et elle était incapable de prendre soin d'elle-même - le simple fait de mettre ses souliers lui demandait un très grand effort physique. Progressivement, après quelques mois, elle a retrouvé environ 50 à 60 % de son énergie, mais son état est resté le même depuis. Read more
 Produced as a limited edition, the Leathers&Letters collection is made up of colourful and styled writing-themed leather products. Preserving the quintessential magic of its art, Delvaux's care and attention to detail is reflected in the design and traditional-style methods used to produce this durable, multifunctional and creative collection. www.delvaux.com Read more
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Anyone who gets shy at the idea of networking, or even dislikes it, may consider starting one herself. Ciara Byrne: “I organized my own networking event just to make it easier. Networking, to me, was pretending to like everyone who could help you progress professionally. But lately I have realised that networking doesn’t have to be that way. Because really all it is is having a chat with someone interesting who you might not otherwise meet. Think of it as any Friday night in the pub.” Read more
Au lieu de considérer le réseautage comme une corvée à s'imposer pour disposer de bons outils de collaboration, les gestionnaires solides en font un instrument de ralliement. Mes lunettes, ma mallette, mon carnet d'adresses: me voilà avec un nouveau défi professionnel à relever. Les gestionnaires montants savent que chaque promotion constitue une occasion d'agrandir leur réseau à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de l'entreprise. Ils ont compris que chaque nouvelle entrée en fonction constitue un moment unique d'aller à la rencontre des gens.
  Libelle, Flair, Feeling, Glam*it en Vitaya magazine/evita bereiken samen meer dan 1 miloen vrouwen. Dat zijn méér dan 1 miljoen stemmen, opinies en sterke vrouwenschouders die samen bergen kunnen verzetten! Om concreet iets te doen met al die meningen hebben we de projectgroep Comeva in het leven geroepen. Dit jaar bijt Comeva zich vast in de verkiezingen. Dus vrouwen, laat ons je stem horen… samen maken we écht een verschil! Read more
 by Mirella Visser, President EuropeanPWN, europeanpwn.netSupervisory authorities in our economic system have failed in their core duty of monitoring and controlling risks. The unbridled selling of financial products, bundling them into complex financial instruments and selling them over and over again has gone unnoticed – until now. The risks are proving to be destructive to the fundaments of, not only our financial, but also our social system. What has been the role of supervisory board members and non-executive directors? What should be their profile after the crisis? Read more
I am fortunate to be in a work environment where the overwhelming majority of my direct reports, coworkers, readers and most of the decision makers at the companies who do business with DiversityInc are women. From that experience--and being a husband and the father of daughters--I value the fact that women think differently than men. There is no doubt in my mind that Larry Summers, head of the White House National Economic Council, was right when he said as president of Harvard University at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce. Read more
  « Je suis plurilingue, d’abord. Cela me permet de voyager entre les peuples, les civilisations et les cultures ; ainsi qu’à travers une créolisation des cultures qui me semble être un passage obligé pour l’Humanité à venir...». Rita El Khayat, médecin psychiatre et psychanaliste, diplômée de médecine du travail et d’ergonomie, de médecine aéronautique, d’anthropologie du monde arabe, membre du département d’études féministes de l’UQAM est auteure de 32 livres et éditrice. C’est une femme très active puisqu’elle présente également depuis juin 2008, l’émission littéraire « Un livre, un ami » à la radio marocaine. En fait, Rita El Khayat est surtout l’auteure du premier livre érotique écrit par une femme arabe. Read more
The difference between success and failure may be your ability to delay gratification. That’s the lesson from Joachim de Posada and Ellen Singer in their wonderfully inspiring book, Don’t Eat the Marshmallow. . . Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life. De Posada and Singer discovered a Stanford University study where one hundred 4-year-olds were put in a room with a marshmallow and told that if they waited 20 minutes, they’d get a second one. At that point, they could eat both. Read more
Omgaan met geld, de opvoeding van je (stief)kind, feestjes met familie leuk houden: alles wat je als jonge vrouw moet weten om je in de eenentwintigste eeuw staande te houden, is te lezen in het Handboek voor de moderne vrouw, van Aaf Brandt Corstius en Machteld van Gelder. Bij het schrijven van dit lijvige handboek putten de schrijfsters uit ervaringen uit hun eigen leven. Voor onderwerpen waar ze zelf niet zoveel kaas van hebben gegeten, schakelden ze deskundigen in.
  The W.I.N. 2009 global leadership conference is the 12th in a series of visionary leadership events that inspire thousands of women, enhance their careers and improve business practices. The interactive content of the three-day forum includes presentations by more than 30 world-class speakers, touching issues around economy, politics, technology, society, environment, humanity, life and work. Panel sessions are complemented by over 30 workshops for body, spirit and mind and plenty of networking events. Free one-to-one coaching sessions are also available. Read more
 Congress of Business & Professional Women In Collaboration with 10th International Congress of Business and Professional Women – EgyptUnder the Theme of Women Empowerment to Meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Under the Patronage of H.E. Mrs. Suzan Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt Mena House Oberoi Hotel (Cairo, Egypt) Read more
Le Festival Elles tournent propose des films réalisés par des femmes. La programmation présente des productions à la vision novatrice, parfois dérangeante, toujours stimulante. Les films sont choisis en fonction de leur potentiel imaginatif, de leur dimension subversive par rapport aux codes et de leur capacité à transformer notre perception, à nous aider à voir autrement.
Ils permettent de saisir comment, dans des contextes multiples (sociétés, cultures, etc.), des femmes résistent et inventent de nouvelles formes de vie, de lutte, de création.
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Propositions à venir à l’occasion du rapport 2009 sur l'écart salarial. (16 mars 2009) La Vice-Première ministre, ministre de l'Emploi et de l'Egalité des chances, Joëlle Milquet, partage les préoccupations de diverses délégations politiques et syndicales qu'elle a rencontrées ces dernières semaines - dont une délégation de la CSC et des Katholieke Arbeidersvrouwen (KAV) qu'elle a reçue aujourd'hui - concernant l'écart salarial persistant entre les femmes et les hommes. 
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Voici un document sur les migrants et les femmes, nouvellement migrantes, leur vie dans l'émigration, leur arrivée dans ce processus de départ et d'exil, de tentatives de vie dans les pays d'accueil et de difficultés de tous ordres à tenter d'exister dans un milieu si différent du leur et si ardu à comprendre. 
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Maryam Hmadoun, lid van Baas Over Eigen Hoofd! (BOEH!) en onderzoekster aan de Universiteit Antwerpen-Departement Algemene Economie, vertelt ons waar haar organisatie voor staat. Nadine Plateau (redactielid Cahiers Marxistes) en Vicky Corbeels (voorzitter ZIJ-kant Brussel) treden met haar in debat. Gerlinda Swillen (voorzitter Masereelfonds) leidt het debat in goede banen. 