A report by Deloitte found major UK employers are planning to recruit board members from a more diverse range of backgrounds than has typically been the case.

The European Commission (EC) is “very committed to speed up progress” on gender diversity in the boardroom, according to European Parliament vice chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary...

More half a million people in the UK have an autism spectrum condition and only 15% of these are in employment, according to the National Autistic Society.

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.