Today's Zaman
16 October 2011, Sunday / ERGİN HAVA , İSTANBUL
Following years of problems integrating into the German labor market, Turks in Germany -- particularly the youths –- are now happy to see that the government encourages companies to apply positive discrimination for immigrants when hiring new people, Aynur Boldaz, the owner of one of Germany’s most successful Turkish-owned firms, Forever Clean GmbH, tells Sunday’s Zaman.
Full Story: http://www.todayszaman.com/news-259988-turks-in-germany-encouraged-as-govt-promotes-affirmative-action-in-job-market.html
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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Germany firms ‘volunteer’ for gender quotas before being forced
FullComment/National Post.com
Oct 17, 2011 – 1:12 PM ET
Germany looks to be heading firmly down the road to affirmative action for women. German corporations, fearing they’ll be forced to meet quotas for women executives, are working towards “voluntary” measures instead.
Speigel online reports:
Representatives of the 30 firms that comprise Germany’s DAX stock index of blue-chip companies met in Berlin on Monday to propose their targets for promoting women into senior executive positions. Under the proposal, the companies plan to voluntarily increase the number of women on their top floors — reaching up to 35 percent by 2020.
With this, the companies are seeking to avoid legislation that might legally force them to address the gender gap, a problem that has become the subject of increasing political pressure in recent months.
Full Story: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/17/germany-firms-volunteer-for-gender-quotas-before-being-forced/
Oct 17, 2011 – 1:12 PM ET
Germany looks to be heading firmly down the road to affirmative action for women. German corporations, fearing they’ll be forced to meet quotas for women executives, are working towards “voluntary” measures instead.
Speigel online reports:
Representatives of the 30 firms that comprise Germany’s DAX stock index of blue-chip companies met in Berlin on Monday to propose their targets for promoting women into senior executive positions. Under the proposal, the companies plan to voluntarily increase the number of women on their top floors — reaching up to 35 percent by 2020.
With this, the companies are seeking to avoid legislation that might legally force them to address the gender gap, a problem that has become the subject of increasing political pressure in recent months.
Full Story: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/17/germany-firms-volunteer-for-gender-quotas-before-being-forced/
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Berlin to consider affirmative action for immigrants
Today's Zaman (Germany)
May 6, 2010
The government of Berlin, one of the 16 states in Germany, is planning to propose a bill in the state parliament giving immigrants priority in job applications and public tenders to promote integration. The state’s executive body, the Senate of Berlin, expects to finish drafting the bill and present it to parliament before the end of the year. The government, controlled by social democrats and leftists, believes the bill will be enacted by March 2011. Berlin is known for its large immigrant population.
Full Story: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-209354-100-berlin-to-consider-affirmative-action-for-immigrants.html
May 6, 2010
The government of Berlin, one of the 16 states in Germany, is planning to propose a bill in the state parliament giving immigrants priority in job applications and public tenders to promote integration. The state’s executive body, the Senate of Berlin, expects to finish drafting the bill and present it to parliament before the end of the year. The government, controlled by social democrats and leftists, believes the bill will be enacted by March 2011. Berlin is known for its large immigrant population.
Full Story: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-209354-100-berlin-to-consider-affirmative-action-for-immigrants.html
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The gap in women’s power in politics
The Boston Globe
By Derrick Z. Jackson
March 23, 2010
IS IT possible India’s parliament and German industry have something to teach us in the struggle for women’s equality? India’s upper parliament voted this month to require that one-third of seats be reserved for women. In Germany, the telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom announced an affirmative action program to raise its percentage of women managers from its current 12 percent to 30 percent by 2015. Meanwhile, in the United States, although a record number of women serve in Congress, women are still only about 17 percent of the members.
An example of the need for a stronger US women’s voice was evident on Sunday as restrictions on federal funding of abortions remained a ping-pong ball that nearly shattered the fragile framework of health care reform passed by the House. The debate was dominated by men, with it all seemingly coming down to whatever deal President Obama could cut with Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan.
In 1992, Harriett Woods, the president of the National Women’s Political Caucus, told the New York Times that “men left to themselves are like tribes on the Hill. We just want to try things our way.’’ Eighteen years later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said with a straight face that health care reform is “liberating legislation,’’ even as the tribes continue to shackle, in a significant way, women who, being the primary caregivers in our society, might better shape reform. Whereas a Gallup poll last year found that men ages 18 to 49 opposed health care reform 45 percent to 30 percent, women ages 18 to 49 supported reform 47 percent to 27 percent. Abortion is of course not the only thing women care about, but the wrangling over it last weekend was too much a male wrestling tournament.
Full Story: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/03/23/the_gap_in_womens_power_in_politics/
By Derrick Z. Jackson
March 23, 2010
IS IT possible India’s parliament and German industry have something to teach us in the struggle for women’s equality? India’s upper parliament voted this month to require that one-third of seats be reserved for women. In Germany, the telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom announced an affirmative action program to raise its percentage of women managers from its current 12 percent to 30 percent by 2015. Meanwhile, in the United States, although a record number of women serve in Congress, women are still only about 17 percent of the members.
An example of the need for a stronger US women’s voice was evident on Sunday as restrictions on federal funding of abortions remained a ping-pong ball that nearly shattered the fragile framework of health care reform passed by the House. The debate was dominated by men, with it all seemingly coming down to whatever deal President Obama could cut with Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan.
In 1992, Harriett Woods, the president of the National Women’s Political Caucus, told the New York Times that “men left to themselves are like tribes on the Hill. We just want to try things our way.’’ Eighteen years later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said with a straight face that health care reform is “liberating legislation,’’ even as the tribes continue to shackle, in a significant way, women who, being the primary caregivers in our society, might better shape reform. Whereas a Gallup poll last year found that men ages 18 to 49 opposed health care reform 45 percent to 30 percent, women ages 18 to 49 supported reform 47 percent to 27 percent. Abortion is of course not the only thing women care about, but the wrangling over it last weekend was too much a male wrestling tournament.
Full Story: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/03/23/the_gap_in_womens_power_in_politics/
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