Joshua Stewart, Lieutenant Colonel (US Army) & Master of Studies in Social Innovation student, says some positive steps have been made to improve gender equality in the American military, but some simple further steps could achieve much more.
Dr Simon Taylor, Senior Faculty in Management Practice, says Women’s access to health, education, economic opportunity and political power have been improving but the picture is very uneven geographically.
Boni Sones OBE, Policy Associate at the Centre for Business Research and Executive Producer, ParliamentaryRadio.com, says Women in business and politics have much to learn from each other – including how to storm the smoking room and break down clubby cultures.
Dr Simon Taylor, Director of the Master of Finance Programme and Senior Faculty in Management Practice (Finance), looks at the inequality of women’s pay in banks.
Dr Neil Stott, Director of the Master of Studies in Social Innovation Programme and Executive Director of the Centre for Social Innovation discusses the dangers of gender stereotypes in leadership.
Kate Nation, Director, Turtle Dove Cambridge, insists working with young women, in any society, is of paramount importance and key to impacting on wider issues such as economic development.
Jessica Toh, former MBA student, discussed how attracting women for events is not just an issue of curatorial focus as part of her blog post reflecting on the TEDxOxbridge conference.