Equal Pay Day: Only concrete programmes will induce change

März 24, 2010

This year’s “equal pay day”, conducted on March 26th 2010 as the date to which German women have to continue their last year’s work in order to achieve the equal annual salary of their male colleagues in 2009, brings the Change Centre Foundation to call for precise measures to be taken by the German economy:
“It is especially the resistance to change becoming manifest in the very concrete attitude and behaviour patterns of decision makers that we are interested in at the Change Centre Foundation,” says Christina Angela Rauh, editor and content manager at CCF. Joachim Klewes, the initiator of the think tank, states: “The same holds true for this issue as it does for other changes in business and society: As long as there are no concrete programmes within the organisations, these structural changes – by law or sets of regulations for example – only have impact on practice sluggishly.”
Via international research cooperations the Change Centre Foundation therefore strives to introduce best practice examples from abroad in Germany. Furthermore, there is going to be a Europe-wide research project which will investigate the attitudes of national representatives from all 27 EU member state parliaments towards specific societal changes.

Source URL: http://change-centre.org/equal-pay-day-only-concrete-programmes-will-induce-change/

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