AN INTERVIEW WITH GREG RUSH, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, PAREXEL & AIDA SABO, VICE PRESIDENT, DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION, PAREXEL Why was it critical for your organization to be involved in the Gender Parity Collaborative? AIDA: It’s important for us to be part of the Gender Parity Collaborative for various reasons. First, we can learn best […]
Real Chemistry Member Spotlight: Marcia Windross
AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCIA WINDROSS, HEAD OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION, REAL CHEMISTRY How have you benefited professionally from participating in this consortium? As a newcomer to the industry, participating in the Collaborative has given me deeper insights into the DE&I space within the healthcare/pharma industries. It has been helpful to learn what other companies […]
Press Release: Gender Parity Collaborative Sustains Success Closing Gender Gap Reveals Latest McKinsey Data
Fairfield, NJ, 15 July, 2021 – The Gender Parity Collaborative, an award-winning consortium within the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) founded with the singular goal of closing the gender gap in the healthcare and life-sciences industry, announced groundbreaking progress toward gender parity and equity from a recent update of the Women in the Workplace study issued […]
Forbes: Accelerating The Pace Of Change In Gender Parity
“The challenge, Cooke says, is “not fixing women but fixing the environment in which women are in. It’s all about the talent pipeline.” As an organization, the HBA is growing rapidly. With 60,000 members in 50 countries, it set up the Gender Parity Collaborative. This is a group of 16 companies wholly committed to sharing […]
Chasing Breakthroughs in I&I: Pfizer’s Mike Gladstone
Pharm Exec sat down with Mike Gladstone, Pfizer’s Global President of Inflammation & Immunology (I&I), to discuss how Pfizer is addressing the unmet need in I&I, the company’s legacy of leadership in I&I, and how its relationships with patients is fueling the quest for breakthroughs over ‘me too’ incremental improvements. To read the full interview, click […]
Women’s Wellness: The Pulse of Business
“In the year since COVID-19 devastated millions of lives, it is clear to see what sits at the epicenter of the crisis: the health and well-being of women. As the world commemorates International Women’s Day on March 8, organizations are also working toward their post-pandemic recovery—prompting us to examine women’s wellness as the pulse of […]
Honoring Black History Month
The HBA is proud to showcase our Gender Parity Collaborative member companies hosting activities to recognize Black History Month. We celebrate their dedicated commitment to dismantling obstacles to parity and equity in the workplace. In sharing this roster of activities and events, the HBA is spotlighting opportunities that can serve as future best practices for […]
A Better Path to a Diverse C-Suite
HBA’s Gender Parity Collaborative is featured in Associations Now. Click here to read Mark Athitakis’s piece on how the Collaborative and its member companies are building a better path to a diverse C-suite.
The Biopharmaceutical Industry: Improving Diversity & Inclusion in the Workforce
Female Workforce Fares Better Working for Committed Equity Advocates in Pharma
Female Workforce Fares Better Working for Committed Equity Advocates in PharmaData Show Support for Women in the Industry FAIRFIELD, NJ (10 December, 2020) – Despite discouraging news on how workplace equity is not accelerating and in some cases even regressing due to the pandemic, recent positive survey data reveal that women working for the pharmaceutical […]