The appointment of women to FTSE 350-listed non-executive director roles is being held back by selection processes, which ultimately favour candidates with similar characteristics to existing...
Quotas are not the answer to boosting the number of women on boards, according to home secretary and minister for women and equalities Theresa May (pictured).
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...
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...
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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...
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.
With International Woman’s Day on 8 March 2012, and the EU committed to improving the number of women on executive boards, Mercer has revealed the ratio of senior executives and managers that were...
