Tag: gender parity

Innovative Patagonia offers childcare at distribution center

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Patagonia may be best known for its sustainability values and initiatives, but the company is also a leader in on-site childcare for its employees. After several decades of providing child care at the company headquarters in Ventura, California, Patagonia brought childcare into its new national distribution warehouse, repair facility and customer service center in Reno, Nevada. Since then, according to a recent LinkedIn article quoting the company leaders, the program is a clear success. Continue reading

Long term shifts are building diversity in the boardroom

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Changes in perception and pipeline are contributing to a rise in women being named to corporate boards, according to an article in Forbes and on LinkedIn. The author, Laura Berger, leadership consultant and executive coach, also suggests ways of continuing the trend. Continue reading

AWESOME leaders say what they want, hope, and envision for women between now and the NEXT International Women’s Day

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The focus of the 2019 International Women’s Day on March 8 is building a gender-balanced world. In honor of the global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women – as well as marking a call to action for accelerating gender parity – AWESOME asked members of the community to contribute their thoughts. Continue reading

Panel will address what well-intentioned men in the workplace can do

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A panel of female and male supply chain leaders at the 2019 AWESOME Symposium – May 1-3 in Seattle — will discuss the challenges and successes of women and men working together to achieve gender parity. Bonnie Fetch, author of (Un)Skirting the Issues: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned Man in Today’s Workplace, will moderate. Continue reading

AWESOME’s next regional event will be March 7 in Chicago

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The fourth AWESOME regional event, to be held the evening of March 7 in Chicago, will provide an opportunity for leading women in supply chain to address in a small-group setting the topic of building strategic relationships that are essential to successful leadership. The sponsor of the event is Hassett Express. Continue reading

Women in the gas and oil industry are ready to build their pipeline

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As in the supply chain field, the gas and oil industry is facing a talent shortage as a generation of workers is set to retire. Women in the industry are coming together to change the fact that only 15 percent of their industry’s workforce is female, a number that drops in half when it comes to higher-paying technical jobs. A story on CNBC.com interviewed Katie Mehnert, CEO of Pink Petro, a for-profit company funded by Shell and others in the energy industry to focus on recruiting women. Continue reading

Ann Drake tells why DSC joined the Paradigm for Parity pledge

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In a new video published on YouTube by Paradigm for Parity, six CEOs talk about why they pledged their companies to the goal of Paradigm for Parity: achieving gender parity in corporate leadership by 2030. One of the featured CEOs is Ann Drake, AWESOME Founder and CEO of DSC Logistics from 1994-2018. Continue reading