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The European Women's Management Development Network (EWMD) is an international association of women and men, individual and corporate members from Europe, who together pursue the goal of increasing the proportion of women in management positions and improving management.
EWMD is a European network with national groups, so-called chapters. EWMD is active worldwide, but mainly in Europe. The most active local groups are in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Lithuania and Turkey and the ASIA chapter in Hong Kong. Some satellites created by individual members exist e.g. in Taiwan, India, South Africa and New York. The EWMD International office is in Berlin.
History - Foundation
[edit]The European Women's Management Development International Network (EWMD) was founded by women from business schools, universities and international corporations in 1984. The initiator was the European Federation of Business Schools EFMD, which believed that women in management needed their own network. The founders included Gay Haskins [1] and Valerie Hammond from England[2], Helga Stödter Ariane Berthoin Antal and Camilla Krebsbach-Gnath[3] from Germany, Frederica Olivares and Ambra Poli from Italy, Margot Wallström from Sweden and Elisabeth Michel-Alder (EMA) from Switzerland. These women conducted intensive research into new forms of organization and management concepts. Although from the outset, EWMD was a network for women in management, men, who were committed to promoting women in management, were always welcomed.
The foundation of the network received support from the EFMD and its Secretary General Sybren Tijmstra (ST). In 1983, Tijmstra organized a conference on women in management, which led to the formation of the first network structure. For the first ten years, EWMD shared the same postal address as the EFMD in Brussels and was supported by the EFMD and the Ashridge Management Centre Business School (now Ashridge Hult, AH). Viki Holton wrote the network's international newsletter.
The first EWMD conference occurred from 18 to 19 March 1985 at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. The topic was "Women in Management in the Changing Organizational Structure". It was attended by 168 participants from 14 countries, including well-known speakers such as Giorgio Armani, Franco Bernardi (Direttore Centrale Operazioni, IBM Italia), Evelyne Sullerot (ES) and Eleanor McDonald (EMD). In 1986, Dr Helga Stödter organized the first conference in Hamburg and became President of EWMD Germany for the following two years. Due to differences of opinion about the organization of the network, Dr. Stödter founded the German-speaking women's network FIM (Frauen im Management) in Hamburg.
Female founders and their publications
In 1986, Ariane Berthoin Antal and Camilla Krebsbach-Gnath published a study showing that only 1.5% of management positions in West German companies were held by women.[4]
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