Archive for October 17th, 2008

Clara Rojas - conversation with an amazing woman

What an incredible atmosphere during the conversation with Clara Rojas! The room was overcrowded and everybody was listening very carefully to what she was saying. What a lesson of life! In our western world where everyone is stressed, absorbed by his/her financial, social and personal issues, everybody has to hear what that kind of person has to say. With a total calm, she explained how she felt and how she ...
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Offset your carbon emission

People are increasingly aware of what we do to the environment. But few people have an explicit idea of the price we have to pay for the CO2 emssion. In a Climate Club by PWC in the women's forum, an interesting website is designed to calculate the price for CO2 emssions. For example, it costs Euro 117 to offset the harm of a round trip for Shanghai to Paris to the environment. Amazing cost. I did a research when ...
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What is the Women’s Forum ?

Conferences, meetings, exhibitions, and more, a calm and constant emulation where working girls whisper, work, network. It is a place where you come across a constant stream of women who have succeeded professionally, as well as personally. Accomplished women who prove that you can be a good mum, a loving ...
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There’s hope!

Yesterday I attended the SciTechGirls corner session at the Discovery Conference Room and it was really inspiring for me! It wasn't so much about technology, but about retaining the right people at companies, specially women. Technology has a lot to do with it, providing the tools for a more flexible environment, but it was much about organizational behaviour than any other thing. Having spent my whole career, 7 years at an advertising ...
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Ellen Mac Athur and Elle Fondation

Interview of Ellen Mac Arthur by Valérie Toranian and Michèle Fitoussi (Elle Fondation). WomensForum sélectionné dans Féminin
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Seven

It was a little surreal to sit among a crowd of one thousand women tonight and watch Diane Von Furstenberg (DVF) walk onto stage as she was simultaneously projected onto three giant screens. DVF shared the moving story of her mother’s survival in a concentration camp and her own improbable birth following her mother’s return home at the end of the war. Her speech focused on the inner strength of all ...
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