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Opportunity Now, in partnership with the Government Equalities Office has identified over 100 Exemplar Employers who are doing innovative work to address occupational segregation, equal pay and opportunities for women in the workplace. The organisations have all committed to sharing their best practice with other organisations in the future.
Exemplar practices sighted include flexible working, creativity in ways of working, transparent pay system and a culture which values female talent. The Full Report is well worth a read. There is also an article in the Guardian which summarises the report.
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Submitted by karamat on Sat, 2008-04-12 08:55.
By making the speech he did when he did Powell inadvertently killed all debate on the subject. Even though there was much that needed to be said about immigration, numbers and integration, no one wanted to say anything slightly critical for fear of being accused of being a Powellite. This point was well made by Phillip Rawlinson in response to the Manzoor article
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Submitted by karamat on Sat, 2008-04-12 08:53.
Sarfraz Manzoor in his article on Enoch Powell provides the answer. Writing to mark the 40th anniversary of his ‘rivers of blood’ speech, he points out that had Powell and Baig had met they might have connected as poets and not necessarily as a men, one white the other Asian, living in Wolverhampton.
Manzoor also is big enough to say that “Enoch Powell was right for highlighting the dangers of communities failing to integrate and right to say that the sheer number of immigrants coming into a country can have a serious impact on its culture”. (How ironic because if Powell had really got his own way, the writer and his family would have been deported to Pakistan!).
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Submitted by karamat on Sat, 2008-04-12 08:52.
Just as I thought I had posted the best entry in relation to the US elections, the speech from Barack Obama comes along. For someone who, throughout his election campaign, had been trying to avoid talking about race, this speech has to be seen as a major compromise. In many ways he had to make a response once the media was determined to focus on the sermon (in which he asked the congregation to pray that God would damn America) from the pastor of his church of many years.
The Times referred to it as ’race speech’ and included a review in the Review section as if it was some theatre which it was, referring to it as ‘a presidential performance’. It has since included an extract of the speech.
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Submitted by karamat on Sat, 2008-03-29 00:44.
The Home Secretary trying to persuade employers to provide opportunities for their employees to improve their English may wish to refer to history. We were last here in the 70s and 80s when we had Industrial Language Training Units (ILTUs). These were aimed at the Asian workforce.
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Submitted by karamat on Mon, 2008-03-24 13:41.
The ageist treatment of Ming Campbell at the hands of our media is well known. You can read the details in an interview with Lady Ming .
John Mortimer has made a comparison with the John McCain, the leading Republican contender in US elections and potential US President. How different their attitude to age is compared to ours!
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Submitted by karamat on Mon, 2008-03-24 13:40.
What not commit to an email or indeed any other written format especially to someone like Karen Chouhan who is heading a seemingly respectable organisation. This interview in the Voice newspaper also gives an insight to Jasper
Some obviously think highly of him as indicated by this tribute tribute though the bit about ‘integrity’ brings a smile to one’s face.
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Submitted by karamat on Mon, 2008-03-17 19:35.
Probably the best article so far on playing the race or gender card sums up what is going on between Obama and Clinton and their supporters.
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Submitted by karamat on Mon, 2008-03-17 19:27.
It seems to be very much still there and getting thicker according to Heather Stewart .
A few days later, referring to the same research as hers, Wittenberg-Cox and Maitland point out that while their numbers in the board rooms are falling they may hold the key to corporate success. They cite examples of companies who have realised this. They are willing to replace their “fix the women” attitude with a willingness to adapt their own practices instead.
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Submitted by karamat on Sun, 2008-03-02 21:44.
The answer is a clear NO according to Ian Buruma. He refers to the incident at Davos where the Pakistani President had accused someone of imposing his ‘European values’ on the Pakistan situation and also the response of the Chinese government that they know best about human rights and don’t need lectures from the West. Buruma points out that “..culture is often a poor excuse for inhumanity. Slavery...stoning of adulterous women...are undoubtedly part of certain cultures . This is not a good argument for continuing such practices”.
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Submitted by karamat on Sat, 2008-03-01 09:45.
