On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum,IKEA Switzerland CEO Simona Scarpaleggia offers her view on what it will take for the global gathering in Davos to achieve a 50-50 gender balance among participants. Scarpaleggia joined Sylvie Durrer of the Swiss Federal Office for Gender Equality, and Suba Umathevan of Plan international Switzerland at a WEF side event session on gender equality in Switzerland hosted by The Female Quotient – a female-owned commerce focused on workplace equality. IKEA Switzerland is one of the few companies, and globally and in Switzerland,that has achieved a 50-50 gender balance in management. Italian-born Scarpaleggia called for an finish to the fraction-time work taboo, which she views as one of the key barriers to increasing the pipeline of young talented women. “In Switzerland, and it is really seen as a stop to a career but we [at IKEA] see it as an opportunity…why should we lose out on talent? Under Scarpaleggia,IKEA Switzerland has established two ...
Source: swissinfo.ch