Women in top positions! Monica Renstig, f. president BPW Stockholm and Women’s Business Research Institute Facts and statistics What lessons can be learned from Sweden?

How to make it? Just encouring is not enough! Politics must work for it! Media must work for it! The whole society and companies must work for it

Reasons to more women in top positions in Sweden? Politics – easy to work, parental leave, daycare centers Media – reporting share of women in managerial positions More women educated in engenering (30%) and Business administration (50%) in an academic level More women choosing the private sector

POLITICS

MEDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH US

Few women in the public managers maximum income From Swedens biggest daily newspapers coverpage yesterday

What can BPW in EUROPE DO? Act like a real lobby organization! Find a very important political thing to work for. Like publicaly financed preschools or daycare centers. More working women in all european countries would change the GNP with +20% Produce Facts and Statistics about female managers on every countries websight and for all countries Engage Media – make NEWS about statistics and reports about women’s situation in your country. Visibility – make the female managers in your country visible. Women as a role model in BPW events Contact the headhunters or recruitment managers and ask them if they are promoting female managers? Arrange seminars about this – enagage BPW members and media. Invite local politicians Promote women in your workplace – tell others in your company that you would like to see this woman as manager Start a mentoring programme. Work for at least one female candidate to each higher position in companies. LEAN IN! YOU HAVE TO DARE TO INVEST IN YOUR CAREER YOU CAN’T DO ALL THIS ON YOUR OWN – YOU HAVE TO HAVE POLITICIANS AND MEDIA WORKING FOR YOU!

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