The GEI and a presentation puzzle

Yesterday was International Women's Day, so the airwaves were humming with news, reminders of where there has been some/no progress, encouragements and disappointments. In the spirit of international exchanges I thought I'd just focus on one source of comparative information which relates to my recurrent theme of the under-recognition of women's competences. The EU's Gender Equality Index was flagged up by Laeticia Thissen in her excellent Social Europe piece. It covers the domains you'd expect: work, money, power, health, time and knowledge, and is a trove of . The indices inevitably give only a broad and partial picture but the data provides a great platform for identifying where more needs…
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Wellbeing and careers: OECD work on social performance

There's quite a debate brewing on how we should think of companies: are they purely economic entities that should not deviate from their goal of financial 'efficiency' and answer only to their shareholders (of course within legal limits); or are they social units which have a wider set of 'stakeholders' - their employees, local communities, society as a whole? I was intrigued to come across a recent OECD publication which suggests that the OECD is firmly in the latter camp. The Policy Brief based on a longer Working Paper, is on Measuring the Social Performance of Firms through the Lens of the OECD Well-being Framework, and makes a substantial contribution…
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Mea culpa: how the PP neglected age

Increasingly I'm having to accept that in the Paula Principle book I left out a major angle, namely the way the PP operates over the full adult life, and not merely at work. I'm now working on a book on how to model the life course as a whole, and so have become sensitised to the way in which inequalities at work affect the (increasingly long) periods people have after they finish paid work. But I should certainly have paid it more attention when thinking then about the PP. The most recent prompt came from a piece by the FT journalist Claer Barrett. Her always interesting contributions to the weekend…
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The GEI and a presentation puzzle

Yesterday was International Women's Day, so the airwaves were humming with news, reminders of where there has been some/no progress, encouragements and disappointments. In the spirit of international exchanges I thought I'd just focus on one source of comparative information which relates to my recurrent theme of the under-recognition of women's competences. The EU's Gender Equality Index was flagged up by Laeticia Thissen in her excellent Social Europe piece. It covers the domains you'd expect: work, money, power, health, time and knowledge, and is a trove of . The indices inevitably give only a broad and partial picture but the data provides a great platform for identifying where more needs…
Read More

Wellbeing and careers: OECD work on social performance

There's quite a debate brewing on how we should think of companies: are they purely economic entities that should not deviate from their goal of financial 'efficiency' and answer only to their shareholders (of course within legal limits); or are they social units which have a wider set of 'stakeholders' - their employees, local communities, society as a whole? I was intrigued to come across a recent OECD publication which suggests that the OECD is firmly in the latter camp. The Policy Brief based on a longer Working Paper, is on Measuring the Social Performance of Firms through the Lens of the OECD Well-being Framework, and makes a substantial contribution…
Read More

Mea culpa: how the PP neglected age

Increasingly I'm having to accept that in the Paula Principle book I left out a major angle, namely the way the PP operates over the full adult life, and not merely at work. I'm now working on a book on how to model the life course as a whole, and so have become sensitised to the way in which inequalities at work affect the (increasingly long) periods people have after they finish paid work. But I should certainly have paid it more attention when thinking then about the PP. The most recent prompt came from a piece by the FT journalist Claer Barrett. Her always interesting contributions to the weekend…
Read More

The GEI and a presentation puzzle

Yesterday was International Women's Day, so the airwaves were humming with news, reminders of where there has been some/no progress, encouragements and disappointments. In the spirit of international exchanges I thought I'd just focus on one source of comparative information which relates to my recurrent theme of the under-recognition of women's competences. The EU's Gender Equality Index was flagged up by Laeticia Thissen in her excellent Social Europe piece. It covers the domains you'd expect: work, money, power, health, time and knowledge, and is a trove of . The indices inevitably give only a broad and partial picture but the data provides a great platform for identifying where more needs…
Read More

Wellbeing and careers: OECD work on social performance

There's quite a debate brewing on how we should think of companies: are they purely economic entities that should not deviate from their goal of financial 'efficiency' and answer only to their shareholders (of course within legal limits); or are they social units which have a wider set of 'stakeholders' - their employees, local communities, society as a whole? I was intrigued to come across a recent OECD publication which suggests that the OECD is firmly in the latter camp. The Policy Brief based on a longer Working Paper, is on Measuring the Social Performance of Firms through the Lens of the OECD Well-being Framework, and makes a substantial contribution…
Read More

Mea culpa: how the PP neglected age

Increasingly I'm having to accept that in the Paula Principle book I left out a major angle, namely the way the PP operates over the full adult life, and not merely at work. I'm now working on a book on how to model the life course as a whole, and so have become sensitised to the way in which inequalities at work affect the (increasingly long) periods people have after they finish paid work. But I should certainly have paid it more attention when thinking then about the PP. The most recent prompt came from a piece by the FT journalist Claer Barrett. Her always interesting contributions to the weekend…
Read More