{"id":4000,"date":"2015-08-06T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2015-08-07T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T20:25:24","slug":"globewomen-newsletter-4-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/globewomen-newsletter-4-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"GlobeWomen eNewsletter 4 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN\u2019S DAY,
\nGLOBEWOMEN SALUTES WOMEN\u2019S LEADERSHIP AT HOME, AT WORK,
\nIN THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND IN THEIR NATIONS.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

THIS ISSUE’S HIGHLIGHTS:<\/em>
\n I. WOMEN INNOVATORS AND THE SHARING ECONOMY<\/em>
\n II. WHY WOMEN LAWMAKERS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE<\/em>
\n III. BREAKING NEW GROUND: WOMEN FIRSTS<\/em>
\n IV. WOMEN CEOS AND QUOTAS: VOICES FROM THE 2015 COLLOQUIUM ON GLOBAL DIVERSITY<\/em><\/p>\n

I. WOMEN INNOVATORS AND THE SHARING ECONOMY<\/h3>\n

Uber, Airbnb, and Kickstarter are Internet-based platforms, which are part of what Time <\/em>magazine called “collaborative consumption”.\u00a0 Now more commonly known as the “sharing economy”, Time<\/em>called this peer-to-peer usage of products, assets, resources linked through the Internet \u2013 as one of the “10 ideas that will change the world”.<\/p>\n

Two innovators appearing at the 2015 Global Summit of Women: Founder of ZipCar and BuzzCar Robin Chase\u00a0and Founder of Bliive\u00a0Lorrana Scarpioni.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"robin<\/a><\/p>\n

At the 2015 Global Summit of Women (May 14-16, Sao Paulo, Brazil), women innovators who operate in the sharing economy are featured. The founder of ZipCar and BuzzCar, a car-sharing service based in the U.S. and France, respectively, Robin Chase has found a way to maximize usage of vehicles, redice environmental impact, and create a new type of business that is now the world’s largest.\u00a0 Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People<\/em> in 2009, Chase has just completed a book on entrepreneurship and the sharing economy.<\/p>\n

\"lorrana<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of sharing a product, how about sharing time?\u00a0 Brazilian Lorrana Scarpioni is the founder and CEO of \u201cBliive\u201d, an Internet platform where users exchange time and skills, instead of money.\u00a0Members can exchange, for example, hour-long guitar lessons for another set of tasks and skills from other members. \u00a0This social network now has 15,000 users in 55 countries. \u00a0Twenty-four-year-old Scarpioni was named by MIT’s Technology Review <\/em>as one of Brazil\u2019s \u201cTop 10 Innovators under the age of 35.\u201d\u00a0 (Source:\u00a0 \u201cMeet the Brazilian Entrepreneur Making Money With Other People\u2019s Free Time,Forbes<\/em>, 12\/14\/14).<\/p>\n

These two women, separated by age and size of businesses, are two ends of the sharing economy.\u00a0 They exemplify the theme of the 2015 Global Summit of Women \u2013 Creative Women, Creative Economies <\/em>\u2013 which underscore women\u2019s ingenuity, talent and persistence.\u00a0 For more information on the 2015 Brazil Summit, please log on to www.globewomen.org\/globalsummit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nII. WHY WOMEN LAWMAKERS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE
\n<\/h3>\n

Two Harvard students provided numerical proof that female lawmakers in the U.S. are better than their male counterparts in working together, collaborating with opposite party colleagues and just passing more legislation.\u00a0 Activists for women have always suspected this to be true, but now there\u2019s actual research to back this claim.<\/p>\n

Research by Quorum, an Internet start-up that analyzes legislative data, showed that women in the U.S. Senate co-sponsored more bills (6.29) with other female lawmakers than male Senators (4.07 bills) with other men legislators over a seven-year period.\u00a0 Moreover, women Senators were much more likely to work with colleagues from another party than men.\u00a0 The average female Senator co-sponsored 171.08 bills with a member of the opposite party, compared with male Senators who only co-sponsored 129.87.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen are not only introducing more legislation over the last seven years, but they are also getting more support for that legislation, getting more bills out of committee and getting more enacted than their male colleagues in the U.S. Senate,\u201d states Quorum\u2019s co-founder, Alex Wirth.<\/p>\n

\"table_ronde\"<\/a>Women government ministers at the 2014 Summit Ministerial Roundtable share public-private sector partnerships increasing women\u2019s economic opportunities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s Global Summit of Women in Brazil (May 14-16th<\/sup>, 2015), 30 women government Ministers are participating in a Roundtable on how government and business can work together to advance women\u2019s and girls\u2019 economic lives.\u00a0 \u201cGiven limited resources, public\/private sector partnerships are the way to go,\u201d according to GSW President Irene Natividad.<\/p>\n

III. BREAKING NEW GROUND:\u00a0 WOMEN FIRSTS
\n<\/h3>\n

\"cathy<\/a><\/p>\n

Cathy Engelbert is set to take the helm of Deloitte on March 11, becoming the first woman to serve as CEO of one of the \u201cBig Four\u201d accounting firms (Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, EY, and KPMG).\u00a0\u00a0 Engelbert has been with Deloitte for 29 years and currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Deloitte & Touche LLP, the firm\u2019s auditing unit.\u00a0\u00a0The company she will lead has 65,000 employees and $15 billion in annual revenue.<\/p>\n

Engelbert credits her mentors for helping her to reach the top.\u00a0 \u201cMy path has been a path a lot of women can foresee themselves taking,\u201d she said in an interview with theJournal of Accountancy<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cI had some great mentors and really good sponsorship helping me find roles in the firm and get a lot of diverse experiences that really set me up for being elected as our CEO.\u201d\u00a0 As she assumes the CEO position, Englebert becomes the 27th<\/sup> woman currently serving as CEO of a US Fortune 500 company. To see the others, visit www.globewomen.com.<\/p>\n

Another female first among the top accounting firms, Patricia Gonzalez of Mexico, will be joining the 2015 Global Summit of Women in Sao Paulo, Brazil (May 14-16, 2015).\u00a0\u00a0 Gonzalez became the first female Partner of a Big 4 accounting firm in Latin America when she was named Partner in 1989.\u00a0\u00a0 While other women soon followed her as Partners in the region, she currently is the only woman on PwC’s Global Executive Board.<\/p>\n

\"womenfirst\"Three women pioneers at the Global Summit of Women 2015: Patricia Gonzalez, Laura Gonzalez-Molero, and Donna Hrinak.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gonzalez joins other women firsts at the Summit in Brazil, including Laura Gonzalez-Molero who is the first woman CEO for Bayer Pharmaceuticals in the Latin America region and Donna Hrinak who is the first woman CEO of Boeing in Latin America.\u00a0 To see what other women leaders are participating in the 2015 Summit, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IV. WOMEN CEOS AND QUOTAS:\u00a0 VOICES FROM THE 2015 COLLOQUIUM ON GLOBAL DIVERSITY<\/h3>\n

\"video\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Human Resource and Global Diversity executives from the U.S., Europe and Mexico convened in New York on Feb 26-27th for exchanges on how to accelerate women’s access to corporate leadership roles.\u00a0 One of the global strategies discussed at the Colloquium is the use of quotas for women on corporate boards now in place in 24 countries (go to www.globewomen.org<\/a>,\u00a0click to CWDI for a complete list of countries with mandates).\u00a0 With the French government releasing its latest data indicating 31.1% of board seats in the CAC40 (France\u2019s blue chip companies) are now held by women (up from 7.2% in 2004), it is clear that their quota mandate is working.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t like quotas, but I like the results,\u201d stated Beata Stelmach, CEO of GE in the Baltics and Poland in a CEO Forum at the Colloquium, where she was joined by Laura Gonzalez-Molero, CEO of Bayer Pharmaceuticals Latin America from Spain, and Patricia Gonzalez of Mexico, who serves on PricewaterhouseCoopers\u2019 Global Executive Board.\u00a0 Hear what they have to say on quotas in the video clip here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"panorama<\/a>Don’t miss the
\n2015 Global Summit of Women
\nSao Paulo, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sao<\/a><\/p>\n

REGISTER NOW AT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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