Welcome to EuropeanPWN, a unique on-line networking and learning community for women and companies seeking to promote women’s professional progress.

EuropeanPWN is Europe’s dynamic fast-growing online and offline networking and leadership development platform for professional women of all sectors and industries. With 3500 members and more than 90 nationalities, EuropeanPWN organizes around 600 events a year in 17 cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London CWN,
EuropeanPWN-London, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Nice-Côte d’Azur, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. EuropeanPWN has published 11 books in the Women@Work series and has been widely quoted in the media as opinion leaders on women’s professional progress.

Deutsche Telekom is first Dax 30 company to introduce women’s quota

Taking female advancement seriously: Deutsche Telekom is the first Dax 30 company to introduce a women’s quota. By the end of 2015, thirty percent of upper and middle management positions in the company are to be filled by women.

30 percent of management positions worldwide to be filled by women by end of 2015
Laying foundations with quotas throughout entire talent chain

René Obermann: “Categorical necessity, not enforcement of misconstrued egalitarianism”

EuropeanPWN Board Elections and General Meeting News

The Presidents and leaders of the 17 City European Professional Women’s Network (EuropeanPWN) elected a new Board on Jan 22, 2010. The two day General Meeting was hosted in Barcelona, part of the federation since 2008. More info and photos here

Women leaders: the new power behind the global economy

You are invited to the 2nd annual Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Webcast celebrating International Women’s Day Monday, March 1, 2010 – 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. EST (GMT-5). In recognition of International Women’s Day, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s Council for the Global Retention of Women (GROW) is hosting a Webcast featuring women leaders from around the world. More information here and for registration click here

EuropeanPWN Oslo member receives 20,000 euro scholarship from our corporate partner IE Business School

Enrollment for EuropeanPWN – IE Scholarships program continues for the upcoming programs in 2010 and 2011. Programs begin at different dates from January 2010 to September. IE looks forward to receive 8 – 10 members to their masters programs in 2010 and 2011. ENROLL NOW!

Women Leading Change

AIPBW – Opening minds and breaking ground in Oslo

An internet search with the key words “women leading change in Norway” gets almost one million hits. Not bad for a country with a population of under five million. But just 15 years ago when the Association of International and Professional Business Women (AIPBW) was founded in Oslo, Norway, Google did not even exist. More

Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch, the Coca-Cola Unit President of the German business, gives us her insights on networking, mentoring and women opportunities

Béatrice Guillaume-Grabisch joined The Coca-Cola Company in May 2006. Since then she has been working as the Germany Business Unit President. She has more than 25 years of professional experience in the areas of executive management and marketing and sales with various leading companies in the consumer goods industry. In a very open interview for EuropeanPWN, she shares her insights as a woman and a leader on networking, mentoring, and women opportunities. In relation to networking, her motto is “Always give chance a chance” as one never knows what will come out of connections made. She also accentuates authenticity as a key point as a leader. She points out that one should “be authentic from the first day on. If you are not, at a certain time people will find out and you will lose credibility”. More

Network News: EuropeanPWN – Amsterdam

A Diverse and Industrious Community

When the organization in Amsterdam was originally founded in 1986 as “the Women’s International Network (W.I.N.)”, there were about two dozen (predominantly English speaking) members. More

‘It’s often not the work but the surroundings that make women leave’

Deloitte’s Elisabeth van Opstall presented Deloitte’s best practices at the December meeting of the European Network of Women in Decision-making in Politics and the Economy. Deloitte has recorded that women often leave the company not because of the work itself, but because of the surroundings. Faced with an underrepresentation of women at top levels, the company has embarked upon comprehensive programmes in a number of European countries. Key factors for improving women’s advancement are top level commitment and a top-down approach. Read more

"Networking - the New Ariadne’s Thread” - "Réseaux - le nouveau fil d’Ariane”

“Women@Work No. 10 Networking – the New Ariadne’s Thread”

Authors: Marie-Claude Peyrache and Cécile Demailly
128 pages, English December 2008

Can one succeed in business (professionally) without networking? To make diversity and parity a reality, women need to practice and master this art. “Networking – the New Ariadne’s Thread”, explores the long and rich history of women’s networks, presents women’s unique way to network and compiles a must-have set of advice on how to network and set-up a networking organisation.

Book also available in French: “Women@Work No. 11 Réseaux – le nouveau fil d’Ariane”

More info & excerpts and how to order

EuropeanPWN events calendar

Third Bi-annual EuropeanPWN BoardWomen Monitor 2008

in partnership with Egon Zehnder International

Overall progress remains glacially slow
Norway by far Europe’s champion

Companies score better on international diversity than gender diversity

One out of ten board members is female

The top 300 European companies now have 9.7% of women on their boards, up from 8.5% in 2006 and 8% in 2004. Of a total 5,146 board seats, women occupy 501. European champion Norway jumped to having 44.2% women on boards as a result of quota legislation . Without Norway, the European growth rate falls back to 9.1% confirming the average growth rate of around 0.5 percentage points over each two year period from 2004 onwards. This development clearly demonstrates that quotas are an effective way to accelerate growth of female representation on boards. More

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For more information contact us: BWM2008@europeanpwn.net

How Did You Manage Your First 100 Days In a New Job?

Our self coaching tool – made of 12 steps to follow and 5 issues to consider during those first 100 crucial days of your career in a company – is online now. Have fun surfing through this tool!

Think Tank Group report: What is it Like for Working Women in Your Country?

France Summary

While working women around the globe share many common experiences, local situations strongly influence how women view and experience their professional career. What are the local dynamics that truly shape women’s working experiences? Do women across countries differ in terms of what they’re looking for in their working lives? These are the questions our think tank group is working to understand. EuropeanPWN ran an online survey from March to October last year; 410 women participated from 58 different countries, 60% being French, US and Germans citizens. We extracted the responses from the French women to build the below results. Read more here