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🧐 Did you know? Globally, only around 5.4% of CEOs are women according to S&P Global's research on corporate sustainability assessments [The Path to Gender Parity - S&P Global]. This #InternationalWomensDay, let's reflect on the gender gap in leadership positions. Keep climbing ladies! 🧗♀️ Cheers to all of the amazing things women can and will do!! #InternationalWomensDay, #equality , #inspireinclusion

On the occasion of Women's Day, it is crucial to reflect on the numerical data that highlights both positive strides and areas that demand improvement. The data below offers estimated figures to encapsulate these details: 1. The Drive for Progress: Only 5.1% of CEOs in India's top 400 listed companies are women, with a marginal increase from 3.4% in 2018. Board seats held by women, including independent and executive directors, stand at 18.3%, a rise from 13.8% in 2018 but below the global average of 23.3% in 2023. When we talk about career challenges 70% of women cite work-life balance as a major obstacle to career advancement. Despite this, women-led businesses exhibit over double the return on investment, proving the impact of female leadership. 2. Economic Implications: Enabling a 5.9% increase in women joining the workforce could boost emerging markets by up to 8%. 3. Pay Disparities: In 2019, women earned only 51 cents for every dollar earned by men, constituting just 34% of total earned labor income. The "motherhood penalty" contributes significantly to the gender pay gap. 4. Tech Industry Snapshot: Women hold only 26.7% of tech-related jobs, with a decrease in the last 2 years. In software engineering, women make 0.93 cents for every dollar earned by men. Gender inequality, discrimination persist in male-dominated tech environments. While progress is evident, addressing these numerical gaps is critical for true gender equality. #WomensDay #GenderEquality

How about, rather than focusing on quotas and numbers, focus on: 1. Treating women like equals in the first place. #internationalwomensday2024 #iwd2024 #equality #ifionlyhadabrain #datarogue

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This campaign is ableist, it is dehumanising & it literally positions people living with dementia as dead. Nobody objects to telling the truth, to discussing anticipatory grief or outlining the devastating impact of the condition on family carers. But I deeply object to the use of death as a metaphor for the lives of people with dementia. I object to every single loss or symptom being framed as death. I object to not campaigning for adequate supports and services rather using frightening imagery. I object to the professionals involved using marketing speak about the campaign. I object to the very valid lived experience of family carers being used as a tool to dehumanise those for whom they care. I object to nobody pointing out that the ‘deaths’ or disease progression could have been eased with appropriate supports. This is the darkest day in dementia advocacy I have experienced in the last decade.

Kate Lee, CEO of Alzheimer's Society, thank you for trying to respond to this very sensitive and raw subject. As someone living with dementia and someone caring for others who are going through neurocognitive changes, I understand that your advert, “The Long Goodbye” might be trying to accomplish. I know that the narrative and experience of the caregiver/care partner for years has been of continual pain and loss. Forever grieving the person their loved one was in comparison to what they have become. However, you could also have shown the new narrative, you might have shown what happens when we remove the stigma and fear from the topic of dementia and how that DOES change the outcome for both the care partner and the person living life with a dementia diagnosis. Yes… there are people who still experience this diagnosis as instant death. And some of them resent me when I suggest there is another way to treat this. But, you and your organization have a responsibility to educate those who do not know of a way that may just help them to cherish their lives for as long as they are living. No one knows their expiration date. Not you. Not me. But, people with dementia hopefully stop putting things off to experience “someday” and learn to live fully in the moment. We could all learn from that. I am sharing your letter for those who might want to read it. https://lnkd.in/ePjHPSW3

My dad has dementia. And I’m losing a bit of him every day. It has been devastating to watch the towering 6ft 6in man, my dad, my rock, lose more and more of himself. An English teacher - a man of words – he has withdrawn from social and family interactions, losing his love of words and communicating. This weekend’s family Easter celebration was another painful reminder of that. This appalling, slow death of ‘self’ will impact half of us – either directly or a family member. So why on earth is no one is talking about it?? You may have seen the new ad from Alzheimer’s Society, “The Long Goodbye”. This portrayal of dementia from the point of view of the family – losing their loved one again, and again, and again… and the incredible pain that causes – is one that resonates all too strongly. So I’m incredibly proud that me and my team at Alzheimer’s Society are partnering with amazing people, trusts and foundations, who will not lie down and accept the devastation that dementia is causing millions of families worldwide. People and organisations that are standing with us, investing in support for families like mine navigating the daily challenges and trauma today, and investing in new treatments and diagnosis that will transform all of our experiences of dementia in the future. The Long Goodbye shows just how badly that change is needed. If you haven’t seen it yet, I really recommend giving it a watch. Hundreds of families affected by dementia – just like mine - contributed to its making. And if you’re going through this too, please know Alzheimer’s Society will be there for you - again and again, and again. 💙 #dementia #alzheimers #alzheimerssociety #longgoodbye

Great piece to camera from Pearl - love this approach. I think that Next Meal are based in London Borough of Haringey. As we know Geoff down in Cornwall is a proponent of 80:20 ie trying to get 80% of benefit for 20% of cost. Next Meal is such a great idea but how can Pearl achieve 80% of what she wants to achieve by only spending 20% of budget. Well as far as property is concerned I’ll attach the list of property assets that those who live in Haringey actually own albeit through the London Borough of Haringey as council in its role as freeholder of real estate assets within its boundaries. Is LBH making best use of its assets for its communities ie “ sweating “ them to use a culinary/ real estate term of art. If not , could the Estates Department at LBH identify those of its assets which are surplus to operational usage and allow them to be used by collectives of Third Sector organisations like Next Meal to make a difference day to day. After all there are something like 140,000 charities in the U.K…. If there weren’t demands for their services we wouldn’t need them. So why not offer such surplus real assets to charities like Next Meal to use them for “ meantime use” …. In this case providing sustinence & support but also perhaps shelter from the storm … both economically and physically. Good work - Pearl and your colleagues