The UK Government has reacted strongly to a proposal by the EU commission to have more women in the boardroom.

HR decision-makers in the UK are paying lip service to diversity strategy, but they are not following this through with strategic action, HR magazine can exclusively reveal.

It is one of the least surprising trends of recent times, already recognised and analysed: the demographic shift that means all societies in the developed world will include a growing proportion of...

The concept of a single glass ceiling is an “outdated model and no longer reflects the realities of modern working life for women”, according to Ernst & Young.

Women are underrepresented in high-paying jobs because they are not applying for them, rather than as a result of direct employer discrimination, research from Desautels Faculty of Management at...

Over the past six years, companies with at least some female board representation outperformed those with no women on the board in terms of share price performance, according to the latest study by...

The number of women in the boardrooms of the UK’s top companies has increased in the past year, business secretary Vince Cable has said.

The founder of the 30% Club and CEO of Newton Investment Management, Helena Morrissey, will give evidence to the House of Lords Committee looking at gender balance on company boards this afternoon (23...

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Twenty women who have been out of the workplace for three years or more have completed an innovative returners programme run by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Irwin Mitchell (IM) is proud to celebrate the diversity of its people, its customers and the areas in which it operates.

“Different organisations face different challenges in promoting equality and need to find the best solution for their business,” the minister for equalities Lynn Featherstone has said.