Our
new partners
We are pleased to welcome the
following partners who signed up in June and July for
the third Edition of the Women’s Forum:
- Worldwide Partner: La
Poste
- Project Partners: Euro RSCG,
Renault
- Annual Meeting Partners: Cisco,
Citi, Flichy & Associés, Nestlé, Ordre des Avocats
de Paris, Thales
- Event & Discovery Partners:
Caisse d’Epargne, Marionnaud
- Asian Delegation: Lafarge,
Mazars, Sodexho Alliance, Schneider
Electric
A total of 50 companies will be
Partners of the third edition of the Women’s
Forum.
Ongoing Projects Coming
Up
Fifteen entrepreneurs have been
selected as finalists of the 2007 Cartier Women’s
Initiative Awards
Diverse and promising projects from
around the world
In June, five meetings were held
for the jury panels.
After a thorough evaluation of the
competing projects, the deliberations held in Beijing
(Asian panel), Miami (Latin American panel), Paris
(African and European panels) and New York (North
American panel) enabled jury members to select the 15
most promising applications for this year.
Following a three-month coaching
period by Cartier, McKinsey and INSEAD mentors, the
finalists will compete for the last phase in October by
submitting their detailed business plans.
The five winners of the Cartier
Women’s Initiatives Awards will be announced on October
12, 2007 at the Women’s Forum in Deauville,
France.
RISING TALENTS
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JP
MORGAN AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF EGON
ZEHNDER
JP Morgan, Egon Zehnder and the
Women’s Forum processed the Rising Talents selection on
July 19 following the criteria below:
- Candidates should have shown
outstanding early achievement in their career, and/or
extraordinary commitment, leadership and impact on
their community and/or have overcome exceptional
obstacles to become leaders in their field
- Candidates should come from the
business, political, non-profit, scientific,
intellectual, artistic or sports domains
- Candidates should come from all
parts of the world
- Candidates should preferably be
socially involved
2007 Rising Talents will be
presented at the third edition of the Women’s
Forum
Please see our next Newsletter for
more information.
WOMEN FOR WOMEN’S
EDUCATION
The Women’s Forum and ELLE magazine
have partnered to support a major project this year,
«Women for Women’s Education», which favours women’s
education around the world.
For the second year running,
Renault will be a Partner of the Women's Forum for the
Economy and Society. Carlos Ghosn, Renault President and
CEO, and Alice de Brauer, Environment Planning Manager,
will be speakers at the event.
Renault, a committed company in
matters of diversity, will lend its support to «Women
for Women's Education», which was launched
internationally by the Women's Forum, ELLE magazine,
ELLE Foundation and Aide & Action.
This operation is a call for
projects targeting young women’s education and training
for women.
On October 13, 2007, in the
presence of Carlos Ghosn, the winner will be granted a
€100,000 prize to implement its project.
Renault will communicate in more
detail to explain its commitment to the
project.
FORCE FEMMES
A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN’S
EMPLOYMENT
Help and support women over
45 seeking employment
FORCE FEMMES was created following
the first edition of the Women’s Forum.
Objectives
- Support women over 45 in their
job search by providing them with individual or
collective support systems, such as workshops,
coaching, training sessions, networking...
- Introduce job seekers to new
professional horizons, help redirect them and support
their will to change via personal coaching
- Create a link between women and
their potential employers
- Help provide companies with human
resources
- Provide information and support
on business creation projects
WOMEN MATTER, A STUDY BY McKINSEY &
COMPANY
Could women be a critical asset for
corporate competitiveness in the near future? The
question is worth asking; according to a recent study by
McKinsey & Company, companies with more women in
their top management appear to perform better than those
who have none.
Women’s talent is still
under-utilized in corporations both from a quantitative
and qualitative point of view. Women’s increasing
participation in the global workforce is not sufficient
to break the ‘glass ceiling’, as barriers in the
prevailing leadership models prevent them from being
more present in management. Yet there is a strong
economic rationale to better leverage women in
corporations and at company level, and a structured
approach and concrete actions are necessary to improve
women’s presence in top management.
The first results of this study
will be confidentially previewed on September 13 to our
partners.
RESEARCH BY
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
The subject of this study is,
“Based on selected identified and examined social and
economic factors, what are the enablers and barriers
that impact women in the workforce?”.
See our next Newsletter for more
information.
New in the Discovery
Programme
MEN’S CORNER: For Men
Only!
IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH BAIN & CO AND
DIAFORA
This very special corner,
created for men only, is a place to relax and escape
from the throng of women! Newspapers, rugby matches and
refreshments will welcome men in a very “cosy” club
atmosphere… and will be open all day long.
But
most importantly, the Men’s Corner will be a place to
discuss a critical issue in the business world:
EQUALITY! «Sirs, do not fear equality!» -- how equality
and its stakes can be spoken about in a way men,
managers and businesses in general can
understand.
SCI TECH
GIRLS
IN PARTNERHSIP WITH L’OREAL
AND ORANGE, AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF THALES, CISCO,
CENTRALE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND THE CITY OF
DEAUVILLE
This long-term project aims to
promote access to scientific studies for young women and
encourages them to do so by:
- Denouncing cultural and
sociological barriers
- Explaining why it is essential to
have more scientifically and technologically oriented
women (companies’ recruiting needs)
- Demonstrating the quality of
scientific careers thanks to studies and debunking the
myth of the researcher’s ‘dusty’ image
- Creating desire thanks to
testimonies from scientific women with exceptional
career paths
TITOUAN
LAMAZOU, WOMEN OF THE WORLD
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
L’OREAL
After six years of globetrotting,
encounters and a long creative process, Titouan Lamazou
has revealed «Femmes du Monde» (Women of the World). His
deeply original vision shows more than 200 portraits of
women in a large-scale exhibition at the Musée de
l’Homme (Natural History Museum) in Paris, from October
11, 2007 to March 30, 2008.
A selection of his
portraits will be displayed at the Women’s Forum.
