Women's Insights on Quality of Life
In 2013, 11 women from seven different countries share their views on Quality of Life in their environment. Combining professional engagement and personal beliefs, these accounts focus on an issue that is essential to societal progress.

Senior Management
In 2011, only 4.4 of the women employed in OECD countries were in a senior management position (7.7 to the men).
Source: OECD Gender Data Portal, 2011

Education
of European graduates today are women.
Source: OECD, 2012

Workforce
Women represent 40 of the world’s workforce
Source: World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, 2011

BLI Specifics
of South American women rate Education as either very important or extremely important to their Quality of Life. It is the highest rated item of the OECD Better Life Index by South American women.
Source: Better Life Index, OECD

Ilene Lang - President of Catalyst, USA
"There is a strong link between how people interact with each other and the quality of their lives."

Vijaya Sharma - General Manager for Operations at Osho Meditation Resort, India
"Quality of Life improves when people learn to respect the balance between physical, professional and emotional values."

Brigitte Grésy - Inspector General for Social Affairs, France
"A key dimension in Quality of Life is how people manage the boundaries between professional and personal lives."
Interview of Martine Durand
Martine Durand, Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Directorate, OECD, explains to which extent there are differences between female and male when it comes to life satisfaction.
Expanding women representation
At the 2012 Women's Forum, Michel Landel, Sodexo CEO, presented Sodexo’s strategic priority and challenges to foster the representation, engagement and development of women in leadership and operational positions.
Sodexo has received the prestigious 2012 Catalyst Award, honoring exceptional business initiatives that advance women in the workplace.
See our initiatives in the US (video)
Read the press release
The Better Life Initiative is a major effort to provide policy and decision-makers with a broad range of statistics relevant to understand today’s societies and economies. The Better Life Index is an important innovative tool that the OECD launched to respond to the need of developing measures that are directly relevant to people’s well-being.
Working towards equality
Women represent 54 of Sodexo’s workforce. Convinced of the need to promote their advancement, nurture talent and, more generally, foster diversity, Sodexo has long given high priority to gender equality.