 The partners of the third edition
50 companies supported the third edition of the Women’s Forum.
- Worldwide Partners: exclusive partners in their sector of activity, strongly associated to the Forum’s activities throughout the year.
Air France, Cartier, Groupe La Poste, L’Oréal Corporate Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Orange, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Suez
- Project Partners: committed in concrete and long-term projects, initiated by the Women’s Forum.
Bain & Company, Euro RSCG, JPMorgan, Renault
- Annual Meeting Partners: official sponsors of « special sessions » of the programme in relation to the core business (Women in Finance, Women in Law and Sci Tech Girls).
Areva, August & Debouzy, Cisco, Citi, Flichy & Associés, Nestlé, Ordre des Avocats de Paris, Paul Hastings, Thales, Total
- Event Partners: sponsor lunches or dinners or are associated to onsite activities.
ABN Amro, Accor, Barclays, Bloomberg, Cegos, Club Med, Egon Zehnder International, ING, Nespresso, Ricoh, Ricol, Lasteyrie & Associés, SNCF, Strategies and Corp, TBWA, Vitra
- Discovery Partners: associated to a corner of the Discovery Hall.
Pommery, Groupe Caisse d’Epargne, GSK Biologicals, Helena Rubinstein, Lenovo, Marionnaud, Nelly Rodi, Printemps, Solera / Calypso
- Delegation Partners: support the two delegations welcomed in Deauville in 2007 : Chinese Delegation and Student Delegation.
Groupe Carrefour, Lafarge, Mazars, Schneider Electric, Sodexho, Standard Chartered Bank, Hudson
- Media Partners: support the Forum through press releases and advertising.
CNN, ELLE, Financial Times, Les Echos
Concrete and Long Term projects
 Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards
Five entrepreneurs received the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards 2007
Launched in 2006 by Cartier and the Women’s Forum in partnership with McKinsey and INSEAD management school, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards are an annual international recognition for innovative female entrepreneurs.
Five promising entrepreneurs received on 12 October in Deauville the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards for the first time. After a tough competition in 2 rounds, they were selected among 15 finalists for the creativity, sustainability and impact of their projects. The prize includes coaching support for a full year, a US$ 20 000 grant and a subscription to INSEAD’s newsletter for entrepreneurship.
The Awards Ceremony was held at the annual Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society in Deauville, France.
For its second edition, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards welcome applications from women with innovative business projects in the initial phase starting from November 1st, 2007.
Find out more on how to apply and read the profiles of the 2007 Laureates, Finalists and Juries on www.cartierwomensinitiative.com |
Rising Talents
The Rising Talents program aims at creating every year an international network of 50 talented women between 25 and 35 years old, coming from economic, political, research, civil society and artistic fields from all 5 continents, in order to identify the talents of tomorrow. This program is developed in partnership with JPMorgan and with the support of Egon Zehnder International and will take place every year as of 2007.
For this first edition, the Selection Committee, composed of representatives of the Women’s Forum, JPMorgan and Egon Zehnder International, has selected 20 young women who emerge in their respective countries as “Rising Talent”. All of them are already exemplary leaders, model citizens, and have demonstrated particular passion, commitment and social involvement, thus making them inspiring entrepreneurs for the future in all their respective areas.
From JPMorgan
JPMorgan is extremely proud to launch the inaugural “Rising Talents” program and to provide a business mentor and financial sponsorship of $30 000 to the London-based charity ThePlace2Be nominated by Emilie Goodall, one of the “Rising Talents”. As a firm, we are deeply committed to advancing female talent in our business and in the wider community. We also openly acknowledge the huge and often untapped potential of women to shape the economies and societies of today and the future. We are honoured to partner with the Women’s Forum to help to identify and invest in the female leaders of tomorrow.
Click here to download the JPMorgan award press release
From Egon Zehnder
Egon Zehnder International is honored to be a partner of the Women's Forum as we believe it offers a unique opportunity for women from around the world to share and exchange on essential issues for society. We are particularly proud to have taken part in identifying and selecting the members of the Rising Talents program. These young and highly promising women will both benefit tremendously from and contribute to the Forum by sharing their unique perspective.
Women for Education
Afghanistan Libre, the NGO chaired by Chekeba Hachemi, received the award of €100,000 within the Women for Education initiative.
Aude de Thuin, President of the ‘Women’s Forum’, Valérie Toranian, Editor in Chief of ELLE Magazine and vice-President of the Fondation d’entreprise ELLE, together with M. Carlos Ghosn, President & CEO Renault, France and M. Jean-Paul Bailly, President of Groupe La Poste, major partners of the operation were on stage to offer this prestigious prize. M. Carlos Ghosn declared: “All my congratulations to you and your association for this great project! Renault is involved in many programs to encourage training and promote diversity within the company but also, more broadly, in society and the economy as a whole. I am very happy and proud today that Renault contributes to help women in Afghanistan. I wish you the best of luck to see your project through successfully!”.
Women Actors for Leading Change
An initiative of both Reporters d’Espoirs and the Women’s Forum with the support of Groupe Caisse d’Epargne, WALC (Women Actors for Leading Change) offered opportunity to four exceptional women to present their work in helping women in their own country. Genius “actors for leading change”, the selected women interacted with the participants of the Women’s Forum in a dedicated corner of the Discovery Hall and served as role models in motivating them to bring change around them.
- Gilliane Le Gallic (France), founder of « Alofa Tuvalu », an association helping the inhabitants of this archipel in the Pacific to set up initiatives to preserve the environment.
- Nora Khan (Bangladesh), Executive Director of « Friendship », a NGO looking after 50,000 patients per year on a boat transformed into a hospital. The NGO is also actively involved in education and environment.
- Dora Nkem Akunyili (Nigeria), Director General of Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), an association fighting again counterfeit medicine.
- Anne-Christine Bandin (France), president and co-founder of Approche, an association to fight against poverty and for insertion in Val de Marne department (supported by Caisse d’Epargne).
Sci Tech Girls, 12 October 2007
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It all started because of one troubling observation: young women today are opting out from studies and careers in science and technology. In response, Aude de Thuin, president and founder of the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society, L’Oréal Fondation d’Entreprise and Orange decided to take action. They were soon joined by the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cisco, Suez, Thales, Total and the city of Deauville, who saw the urgency at hand, and believed in the project.
A few brainstorming sessions later, the project took shape—a day dedicated to helping young women meet women active in the domains of science and engineering. An international initiative, these established professionals could be role models to encourage these girls to enter the world of science and technology. And so Sci Tech Girls was born.
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Some 130 young women answered the call to attend this special day which took place alongside the Women’s Forum, on October 12, 2007. The girls came from the regions of Normandy, Ile de France and elsewhere. Some took the train early on Friday morning (the SNCF, partner of the Women’s Forum, allotted two train cars for the occasion) and took advantage of the trip to Deauville to get to know one another, share their first impressions and look over the questions they had prepared for the day.
At 10am they arrived in sunny Deauville with the firm belief that they would leave that evening with a clearer vision of their future.
Click here to download the Statement of Deauville
Click here to download the press release of this event
Studying and understanding the role of women
Women Matter: Women and Economic Performance
The “Women Matter” study was carried out by McKinsey & Company in line with its worldwide partnership with the Women’s Forum.
It shows that those companies with the highest number of women on their boards and/or management teams are the most competitive.
Confirming the discrepancy between men and women, notably when it comes to corporate management, McKinsey sheds factual light on the importance for companies to support the qualitative and quantitative development of women in the economy.
Seizing the official «report» and highlighting the main barriers to women’s presence in management, this study offers leads to move from the reflection phase to concrete action in imagining models to speed up the development of diversity in the corporate world, and in particular when it comes to management positions.
Are women the future of the business world? Time will tell…
Download the abstract of this research here
Women’s economic participation – Enablers, barriers and responses
PricewaterhouseCoopers launched a report titled, “Women’s Economic Participation: Enablers, Barriers, Responses” at the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society meeting in Deauville, France. The report provides perspectives and insight from working women, in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Spain, Sweden and the U.S., with respect to the socioeconomic enablers of and barriers to women’s economic participation in those countries.
The report also provides views on country-specific organisational and governmental interventions to reduce the gender gap and increase female economic participation in these eight countries.
“Creating an enabling environment is a critical step in addressing gender imbalance in the workplace. But what constitutes an enabling environment will differ from society to society. Likewise, what constitutes a barrier to gender diversity will differ also, as will the methods to remove barriers,” said PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global CEO Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.
Corruption perception and the role of women in anti-corruption plans
Is corruption a growing phenomenon?
66 % of the French believe corruption is widespread in their country (among which 53 % consider it to be rather widespread), this figure increases when we question Germans (74 %), Americans (82 %) or Italians (93 %).
In most cases (60 to 70 %), people consider that if there were more women holding posts with responsibility, there would be less corruption.
What are the drivers of the corruption?
Power first and foremost? Money? Or power and money equally?
Have corruption perceptions evolved or become more subtle?
How do men or women position themselves in regards to corruption?
Are we witnessing the appearance of perception differences according to gender regarding corruption responsibility?
Who are the corrupters? Why are women more difficult to corrupt?
Do women perceive themselves as "weapons" against corruption?
These are some of the many questions investigated by Ricol, Lasteyrie & Associés within the framework of its partnership with The Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, this year.
Download the abstract of this research here
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