Female leadership

Health and Wellbeing at Work 2025: Day two round-up

Influential HR leaders inspired attendees of the 'Best Place to Work' seminar theatre yesterday (12 March), at Birmingham’s NEC, for the second and final day of this year's Health and Wellbeing at...

New rise in female representation on FTSE boards

Women are represented on 45% of FTSE 100 board roles – an increase of two percentage points from the previous year – a report has revealed.

How employers can support black female leaders

As the new Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, assembles her top team, we asked HR leaders how employers can support and encourage black, brown and non-white female leaders.

Lessons HR can learn from a gender-balanced parliament  

The 2024 UK general election returned the highest number and proportion of female MPs ever recorded: 263 (40%) of the 650 MPs are women, up from 220 in 2019 (+43).

A year on from the CBI scandal

Elizabeth Wallace, interim chief people officer, was given a year to rescue the CBI from a sexual misconduct crisis. In this exclusive interview, Millicent Machell finds out how she used HR to drive...

David Olusoga: Women are workplace changemakers

Women change workplace cultures by their very presence in traditionally male professions, the historian and broadcaster David Olusoga has stated, in the lead-up to International Women’s Day (today, 8...

Blame is attributed differently to male and female leaders, study finds

New research has found female leaders are given the benefit of the doubt when they do not achieve positive results, with failures put down to bad luck.