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   « World Café » Equity in Workplace As the JuDy project comes to an end, Marion Fortin and Caroline Manville are organizing a workshop for practitioners in a "World Café" format on the theme of equity at work.The World Café format allows for exchanges between participants in a collaborative manner in order to explore topics in depth, to share knowledge and practices with the purpose to establish a constructive dialogue and to consider concrete actions.As part of the World Café, we are organizing…

Management: Comment mieux accompagner la maternité   Marion Fortin and Camille Desjardins spoke to Lys Zohin in issue 1545 of the specialist magazine Entreprise and Carrières.Here is a summary of the interview: "Lack of information and support, and even manipulation by managers: it is not a coincidence if  talented women leave their employers when they return from maternity leave. At the Toulouse School of Management, Marion Fortin and Camille Desjardins have conducted an investigation. They give…

"La bonne gestion du congé maternité est un levier important pour l'égalité homme-femme"   Marion Fortin and Camille Desjardins spoke with Florine Galéron, journalist at La Tribune.In this interview, the two researchers present their study on women's experiences at work before, during and after maternity leave, they share the most important results of this study and their recommendations to organisations and managers including:- Planning the absence by involving the pregnant woman several months…

Télétravail: “Les femmes enceintes et les parents de jeunes enfants gagneraient beaucoup à un droit dédié” by Camille Desjardins and Marion FortinWe observe:- That despite extended rights to telework during the pandemic, women have had to fight to be granted permission to work from home.- In particular, they encountered reluctance from their managers.- Reluctance in the form of extra work tasks, guilt-tripping remarks and incentives to come to work during Covid-19-related lockdown waves.⤵️ We propose:-…

The JuDy team was pleased to present the progress of its study on women's work experiences at the time around maternity leave in December 2020 at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference. Created in 2001, this association, whose members are present in 60 countries around the world, aims to advance the discipline of management in Europe. Abstract of the submitted paper:   Recent research suggests that becoming a mother could be a tipping point in women's careers. A study conducted…

The JuDy project team is organizing two seminars to present the results of the study on women’s experiences at work at the time around maternity leave. These seminars will be an opportunity to learn more about the context of this study, to discover its results and to exchange with two of the project researchers, Marion Fortin and Camille Desjardins. Here are the dates of the two seminars: - October 4th from 12pm to 1pm -October  7th from 1pm to 2pm For your information, this seminar will be held…

  Two of the studies conducted as part of the JuDy project will be presented in August 2021 at the international conference organized by the Academy of Management (AoM). Founded in 1936, AoM is the leading professional association of management and organization researchers. Its community now includes nearly 20,000 members in more than 120 countries.   The study on women’s work experiences during their maternity leave will be presented as part of the symposium "Women's Careers in the 21st Century:…

The core study of the JuDy project has now started. We are interviewing women before, during and after maternity or adoption leave. The success of the project depends on the participation of employed women. If you are pregnant and working please sign up - we need your help!

Under a clear blue sky a part of the JuDy team met in Toulouse. Hayley German and Janine Bernhardt came to Toulouse for a first project working session at Toulouse School of Management with Marion Fortin and Camille Desjardins. Work included talks about the new EU regulation on the protection of personal data (GDPR) and the design of the participants consent forms for the project interviews.