The 2015 women on boards target is creeping closer. But are headhunters helping or hindering gender diversity?

A House of Lords (HoL) committee has urged the government to oppose European Union plans to introduce a 40% quota of women on boards by 2020.

Sheryl Sandberg's book Lean In made me question how inclusive banking really is. I started by taking a close look at my own company, and used the data to make organisational change.

You can't have the best workforce if it's not a diverse organisation. The only way to achieve that is to make sure recruitment and retention processes encourage women.

Nicky Little, head of leadership at Cirrus, asks why gender still matters in some sectors more than others.

The supply chain industry has traditionally been viewed as a male-dominated environment. While more women are entering the sector, and we have seen a positive shift in the past 10 years towards a...

The Government is not in favour of quotas for women on boards, but they are important as a “backstop” for companies that continually fail to hit targets, according to secretary for business,...

Workplace diversity programmes should look beyond gender and towards other areas such as age and social mobility, according to Newton Investments CEO Helena Morrissey.

Cherie Blair, a QC and founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, has called for workplaces to be more gender-balanced. Will introducing quotas be effective in addressing corporate gender...

A lack of gender diversity at senior management level is hampering the performance of power and utilities (P&U) companies, according to a report by professional services company EY.

Female executives in the UK’s top companies are two times less likely to be promoted than men.

Business needs to move from discussing the ‘why’ of diversity to talking seriously about how to achieve it in reality, diversity champion Helena Morrissey said last night.