Tag Archives: The Guardian
Royal Mail chief backs staff quotas for women
Royal Mail chief executive, Moya Greene is publicly backing recruitment quotas for women in the workplace – including the boardroom. Continue reading
Posted in News, Women in Business in the Media Tagged equality for women, quotas for women, The Guardian, women on boards quotas |First woman to command Royal Navy warship
Sarah West will become the first woman to take command of a major British warship. The Royal Navy (previously for men only) has made steps in recent years to widen its appeal to women and has described this as an historic … Continue reading
Posted in News, Women in Business in the Media Tagged equality for women, Female business leaders, female role models in business, The Guardian |Will Syria’s first lady stand up for peace?
As the unrest continues in Syria the wives of the British and German Ambassadors to the UN appeal to Syria’s first lady to stand up for peace. Can Asma al-Assad persuade her husband to end the brutal fighting? Continue reading
Posted in Blog Tagged equality for women, The Guardian |Female Directors Appointed in Boardrooms
The number exclusively of male boards in the list of FTSE 100 companies shrunk to just 21 last year. That number reduced to just 11 in March 2012, and with silver mining company Fresnillo appointing their first female director María … Continue reading
Posted in News, Women in Business in the Media Tagged equality for women, Female business leaders, female role models in business, gender agenda, The Guardian, women on boards, women on boards quotas |Women in business: is David Cameron failing to see the bigger picture?
In recent weeks David Cameron has been very vocal in calling for more women to make it onto the boards of the UK’s top companies but is this enough? While we would agree that there is insufficient representation from women … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Tagged equality for women, Etta Cohen, Female business leaders, Financial Times, gender agenda, quotas for women, The Guardian, women in business, women on boards, women on boards quotas |Record number of women on UK boards
In the last year, since the government demanded more representation for women in the UK’s boardrooms, the number of women taking positions on boards has reached record levels. Read the full article in the Guardian.
Posted in Women in Business in the Media Tagged equality for women, gender agenda, quotas for women, The Guardian, women in business, women on boards, women on boards quotas |Women urged to set up businesses or retrain
It seems that women have been hit hardest by cutbacks with 1.09 million women now unemployed in the UK. This report from The Guardian suggest that the answer could be more help for women to establish new businesses (see our … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Business in the Media Tagged female entrepreneurs, Female unemployment, start up businesses, The Guardian, women in business |Latest Hub Post
Download Presentation: The Pacific Road to Success – by Lara Morgan 20/03/13
Download the PowerPoint Presentation from this event. (right-click the link and choose the Save Target As or Save Link As) The Pacific Race to Success: Lara’s own compelling story of setting up a business as a one-man band, age 23, through to the sale of her 99% shareholding … Continue reading
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