Simmons Students Visit Denmark and Sweden to Learn About Women in the Workforce
Professors from the Simmons School of Management took twenty students to Denmark and Sweden to explore how the countries support women in the workforce. The trip was planned after Associate Dean Patricia Deyton and Professor Cynthia Ingols took a group of students to Japan in Spring 2013. On the Japanese trip, students studied women’s involvement in the workforce and equity issues. Traditionally Japanese women leave the labor market when they get married; more recently Japanese women leave the labor market when they have their first child and they tend not to return.
In contrast to Japan, women in the Denmark and Sweden have a very high rate of participation in the labor market. The professors wanted to bring the students to these countries so that they could witness and learn firsthand what governmental and corporate policies encourage women to work.
Smith’s Fourth Women Leading Women Discusses Empowerment and Self Promotion
On March 23, Andrea Brody, senior vice president of global marketing at BravoSolution, spoke to business women of all backgrounds at the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ fourth Women Leading Women conference. The event, moderated by Vice Dean Joyce E. A. Russell and presented by Smith’s Office of Alumni Relations, celebrated inspirational female trailblazers in the business world. Brody was this year’s honoree, according to a press release on the Smith Website. Continue reading…
Smith Encourages Women in Business with New Scholarships and Partnerships
New scholarships, alliances, program innovations and opportunities are now available for women at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Some of these new scholarships will come from Smith’s participation in the Forté Fellows Program, an international campaign organized to increase the number of women in top MBA programs. Smith and five other schools officially joined the Forté community on July 1, bringing the total in the network to 48 member schools in the United States, Canada and Europe. Continue reading…
Grace Lemmon Talks Business Trends With Kellstadt
Grace Lemmon, DePaul’s assistant professor of management and alumna, has studied how trends involving women in the business world have effected today’s workplace. Among these trends impacting the business worlds are: more women in the corporate ranks, multiple generations in the workforce and the bust- and-boom economic cycle.
Lemmon recently discussed what her studies revealed about today’s evolving workforce in a Q&A with Robin Florak from the DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. Here are a few excerts from that conversation: Continue reading…
