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Geodis to reward managers who drive its global gender diversity aims

Promotion of gender parity will be reflected in Geodis’s bonus structure, as it looks set to reach its target of at least 25% women in management positions by 2023.
Top managers who work to promote women will be rewarded financially, said CEO Marie-Christine Lombard (pictured), noting that women are already represented on all the company’s regional management committees.
“We now want to go further,” she added.
The new Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) …

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Time for (an inevitable) change – more women at the top in logistics

It’s International Women’s Day (IWD), and The Loadstar’s inbox and social media channels are full of stories of women in logistics.
“Let’s focus on one of ‘them’”, say companies excitedly, publishing an image of a female staff member in a hi-vis jacket, seeing a chance for marketing opportunities, a chance to jump on the bandwagon. (“We employ women! Even in the warehouse!”)
A gender-washing, if you will (or ‘pink it and shrink …

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Comment: Why gender diversity really matters in logistics

Does gender diversity really make business better?
I have to disappoint you. It has not yet been scientifically proven that there is a causality between gender diversity and performance. But still, we all know that diverse teams are better than homogeneous teams when it comes to performance in complex environments.
Causality and correlation are two different things
In two meta-studies, (Post and Byron, 2015 and Pletzer, Nikolova, Kedzior, and Voelpel (2015), 140 peer-reviewed …

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Boom! calls on supply chain professionals to help evaluate career prospects

Boom!, the cross-industry community of female supply chain professionals, is asking the industry – both men and women – to complete a survey on career progression.
The survey will examine career prospects and plans, as well as perspectives on equal opportunities in supply chain professions.
Boom! wants to poll practitioners, consultants and vendors to gain a grass root view on issues such as career obstacles and enablers, mentoring and leadership development and …

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Firms can be better: there can be more gender diversity in logistics

When you ask logistics companies why they have so few senior (or even junior) female staff, you tend to get the same response: “Women don’t apply for jobs here. What can we do?” 
Well, the answer is not, in fact, ‘nothing’; many companies seem to think that a lack of applications means they don’t have to try.  
But a new white paper from Bis Henderson on gender diversity in logistics shows companies how …

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