At the end of the 1990s, the first woman chief executive was appointed at a FTSE 100 firm and it seemed reasonable to expect this breakthrough would create a good deal of change for other women. It...

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Lord Davies of Abersoch will today publish the first annual progress report on his review of Women on Boards.

Nearly half of women working in the banking industry believe they face career barriers because of their gender, and a third (36%) of men agree, according to a report published this morning by the...

A vision to inspire lasting social change was central to London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

It is a simple truth: when promoting to the next level up, employers appoint from the next level down - that's why Sergeants are recruited from the ranks of Corporals, Cardinals from Bishops and PLC...

Today is European Equal Pay Day, which aims to raise awareness of the gender pay gap and comes ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March.

There has been a considerable amount of backlash in response to Nick Clegg’s recent invite to employers to join the Government’s Youth Contract Scheme.

Compulsory quotas for women in the boardroom are a key way forward, according to a poll of women’s business networks, carried out by leadership consultancy, White Water Group.

With International Woman’s Day on 8 March 2012, and the EU committed to improving the number of women on executive boards, Mercer has revealed the ratio of senior executives and managers that were...

Professional services firm PwC has received almost 400 applications for its female partner shadowing scheme whereby undergraduates join the firm for a week this summer.

Almost half of UK workers think that employers’ diversity programmes are “only designed to attract good PR”, according to research published this morning from Adecco Group’s Unlocking Britain’s...