How HR can support gender diversity at senior level

Quotas are not the way forward for increasing diversity at senior level, but HR has a role to play

Achieving gender equality in technology workplaces

Workplace gender equality is often sensationalised, which detracts from the root cause of the problem

One in five believe women can't reach senior management

O2’s Women in Leadership campaign results

UK engineering must learn from abroad

Amec Foster Wheeler HRD on UK engineering better promoting itself

Significant increase in female NED appointments

There are more female non-executives in the FTSE 350 than ever before

Women should not feel guilty about having work/life balance

Women in senior leadership roles shouldn’t feel guilty for striking a work/life balance, according to Fleur Evans, partner at global headhunting firm JCA Group.

Female CEOs inspire female executives to aim higher

Female executives are more likely to want to become a CEO one day if their current CEO is also a woman, according to research from Weber Shandwick.

Shared parental leave must match maternity benefits to truly foster change

Shared parental leave (SPL) legislation is very good news for the UK. If we can make having babies and the necessary flexibility of early years child rearing a parental opportunity, rather than a...

More recognition of unique skills of genders needed

Businesses need to place greater emphasis on valuing the unique qualities of men and women, managing partner of consultancy the Gender Intelligence Group, Val Sorbie has told HR magazine.

A third of women say men are offered more opportunities at work

One in three (31%) working women in the UK believe men are offered greater opportunities at work, according to research by professional services recruitment firm Badenoch & Clark.

Ask for a 50:50 gender split when talking to recruiters, advises O2 HRD

HR directors should ask recruiters to deliver a 50:50 shortlist when recruiting in order “to level the playing field”, according to O2 HR director Ann Pickering.

Motherhood pay gaps highlight inequality

Motherhood pay gaps are a global issue. New research from the International Labour Office (an UN body) explores the growing inequality between working women.