Promoting equality in business is “simpler than [organisations] think”, with SMEs in particular perceiving the laws around it as “more burdensome” than they really are, employment relations minister...
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has called on UK employers, parliament and political parties to do more to celebrate diversity and not merely “tolerate” lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender...
Male-dominated corporate culture is the biggest barrier for women reaching board level, a report out today from executive search firm Harvey Nash and board network Inspire has found.
A drive to get more female representation onto FTSE 100 and FTSE250 boards has stalled, a report from Cranfield School of Management has found.
Diversity and inclusion programmes must be tied to commercial strategy or risk failing due to “diversity fatigue”, Sarah Churchman, director of diversity, inclusion and employee wellbeing at...
Employers’ diversity strategies should focus on creating a diverse talent pool for the future, not just short-term gain, Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, head of diversity and inclusion EMEA at Google has said.
Employment relations minister, Jo Swinson has said the government is taking a range of steps to help "remove the barriers" that are holding women back in the workplace.
Lord Davies this morning said quotas for women on UK company boards should be introduced if the UK doesn't reach its 25% target by 2015.
The UK's largest employers are failing to increase the number of women on their boards despite a Europe-wide push to get more women to top management positions, the latest figures from professional...
When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, Christine Lagarde, now head of the IMF, quipped that had it been Lehman Sisters, the economic crisis would look very different.
Two years on from the Lord Davies' report on women on boards, figures show that female representation on corporate boards in the UK has increased to 17.3% up from 12.5%.
Business secretary Vince Cable has written to the chairman and CEOs of the remaining seven FTSE 100 employers with all-male boards, urging them to take action to increase the number of women in the...
