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FTSE 350 urged to step up to meet 2020 women on boards targets

Figures released on 27 June by the Hampton-Alexander Review show 29% of FTSE 100 board positions are held by women. More women than ever before are on the boards of the UK’s largest companies but they still have some way to go to meet the target of 33% women by 2020, according to new data […]

Fathers say they’d take pay cut for better work-life balance

Fathers should be helped and encouraged to work flexibly to reduce the impact that having children has on women’s careers, says think tank. The Social Market Foundation (SMF) said that cultural barriers to men working part time help force mothers into career choices that have long-term costs for their employment levels and wages. In a […]

Charities lack diversity at senior level

A third of largest charities ‘have all-white senior leadership teams and boards’ Green Park has released new research reviewing the diversity in Major UK Charities which has found that more than a third (34) of the largest 100 UK charities by turnover have no ethno-cultural diversity in their senior leadership team. Only 8.1% of senior […]

UK authorised fund managers seeking (female) NEDs

In April 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority — as part of a raft of far-reaching changes — confirmed all UK authorised fund managers (AFMs) would have to include a minimum of two non-executive directors on their boards. Since then, research organisation, UK Fund Boards has been unpicking what this is all going to mean for […]

Pathetic explanations revealed for why we can’t have women on boards

  Despite a major drop in the number of top companies with all-male boards, many are still refusing to move with the times – and some of the worst explanations firms have made for not having women among their top employees were revealed at the end of May. Outrageous explanations for not appointing more women […]

Ministerial changes undermine Government’s equalities work

The turnover in the role of Minister for Women and Equalities, and its part-time nature, risks undermining the effectiveness of equality policy and giving the impression that equalities issues are peripheral to day to day Government says a recent report on the role of Minister for Women and Equalities and the place of the Government […]

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