How can leaders advance gender equality? Read this post by our guest-blogger Kristine St-Pierre. Kristine is an independent consultant with experience in research, analysis and training in the field of gender parity, equality, women, peace and security, peacekeeping and security sector reform. Her recommendations goes very well in line with the System-Wide Strategy on Gender Parity.

For every new hire at Google, leadership is one of four key skills that is assessed. Leadership is important even for talents not applying directly to a managerial role. It is key to be able to manage a project, but further down the career the candidate may be exposed to leadership roles, says Martin Eriksson, who has a long career at Google. He is now based in Stockholm, but he has worked for Google at their HQ in California as well in their European headquarter in Ireland

Recruiting for gender parity in the deep field is one of my biggest challenges as Chief of the Recruitment Section for UN Field Missions writes Kristina Koch, guest blogger at Impactpool. In this article, she both shares her insights from a recent field study to learn more about how it is to be a woman working in the “Deep Field” and an ongoing innovative initiative to reach gender parity.

The UN is relaunching its Senior Women Talent Pipeline in an effort to increase the number of women in its peace operations, an intiative on line with the UN Secretary General's System-Wide Strategy on Gender Parity. Improving the gender balance in mission leadership is not only a laudable but also an essential measure if the Organization is to succeed in its ongoing efforts to develop more efficient and effective field missions for future global peace and stability.