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.

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."

Jane Adamik - Ballet mistress at the Lido, United Kingdom
"Caring for others and grabbing time for yourself contribute to a better Quality of Life."

Carol Florez - Human Resources Director for Benefits and Rewards Services at Sodexo, Brazil
"Quality of life depends on the harmony one can achieve between workplace duties and personal life."

Charlotte Pattison-Rideout - Sodexo Deputy Director of a prison in Peterborough, United Kingdom
"Quality of Life is about doing small things that can have a great impact on others!"

Dr. Adis Maria Vila - Chief Diversity Officer at the US Air Force Academy, USA
"For a better Quality of Life you need to bring work and personal life together step by step."
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.
Mayor representación femenina

En el Foro de Mujeres 2012, Michel Landel, CEO de Sodexo, expuso la prioridad estratégica y los desafíos de Sodexo para fomentar la representación, la participación y el desarrollo de las mujeres en cargos operativos y de liderazgo.
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.