More women in boardrooms: How are FTSE-listed companies faring? November 18, 2014 More women than ever before are rising to to the top of FTSE-listed companies but there's still a lot to be done. A report by executive recruiters Norman Broadbent has found that companies are making good progress towards increasing female participation on their boards. This is line with recommendations from Lord Davies of Abersoch's report three [...]
Women “don’t get paid after today” claims #EqualPayDay report November 4, 2014 If you're a woman, you might want to down tools for the rest of the year, because from now on you are effectively working for free. That's the argument of a report claiming that the gender disparity in pay has actually grown to such an extent that, including full and part-time workers, men earn on [...]
Women of the Future awards: KPMG partner Claire Angell takes prize October 28, 2014 Pioneering female business stars gathered at the Hilton, Park Lane last night for the annual Women of the Future awards, joining secretary for education Nikki Morgan and Dragons’ Den star Kelly Hoppen. There were many City and London names in the running, but Claire Angell, director at KPMG took the professional award, as one of [...]
Gender equality in the workplace “won’t be achieved until 2095” says World Economic Forum, as UK slips to 26th place October 28, 2014 When it comes to gender equality, the UK is the 26th-best country in the world, below Rwanda, Nicaragua, Burundi, South Africa, the US and Moldova, a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows. The UK's position has fallen from ninth, when the Global Gender Gap Report was launched in 2006, which the report attributed [...]
Anne Richards: We need a new plan to bring women back into the square mile October 26, 2014 "It is bad, shocking, awful. Since 2008 it has got worse. As an industry we’ve managed to deter a chunk of half of the population. We’ve got to get that sorted.” Aberdeen Asset Management’s chief investment officer Anne Richards does not hold back on the City’s gender imbalance. For her entire professional life, [...]
Asda faces mass legal action over pay inequality: Female shopfloor workers say they receive less than males in warehouses October 26, 2014 Thousands of female shop floor workers are taking legal action against Asda over pay inequality. They claim they are paid less than many male employees working in warehouses, despite doing equally valuable work for the supermarket chain. Law firm Leigh Day told the Guardian that 19,000 Asda employees had approached it since April, [...]
Our obsession with inequality is dangerous – the emerging world knows better October 20, 2014 Forget political polls and voting intentions. The most important survey of recent months came from Pew Research on the attitudes of populations worldwide to capitalism and inequality. As many Western economies labour under the strain of slow growth, an intellectual narrative has taken hold, arguing that free market capitalism causes unacceptable levels of inequality. But [...]
Why aren’t there more female bosses? Maybe it’s because women don’t want them October 17, 2014 For the many women fighting to introduce more women to the top of the work force, there exists a large number who would rather they weren't there at all. The majority of Americans would still rather have a male boss than a female boss, and this preference is particularly prominent among women, according to [...]
Britain climbs to fifth place for women on boards October 8, 2014 The UK is a world leader in female representation on boards, with women making up a quarter of board roles. On a continent-wide basis, Europe comes out on top, with 20 per cent of directors at major European companies being women, a substantial increase from the 15.6 per cent two years ago. European companies now [...]
100 Women in Hedge Funds: MPC new girl Kristin Forbes’s talk goes from Bard to verse October 1, 2014 Kristin Forbes, the American economist who became one of the Bank of England’s newbies this summer, could have been a breath of fresh air. She’s the first woman to serve on the bank’s rate-setting committee for five years – she could have really shaken things up. But alas, she’s toeing the party line… of shoehorning [...]