As 2018 draws to a close, there has never been more visibility in business on the lack of women in leadership. Companies addressing gender imbalance, as part of the drive to align corporate purpose to changing societal expectations, are building the greatest trust in their stakeholders. Rising public awareness and grass-roots focus from employees, will...Read More

FTSE 350 companies have been urged to step up at meet targets to get more women on boards by 2020. Data released to mark the halfway point of the government-backed, Hampton-Alexander Review, found that a quarter of FTSE 350 board positions are held by women, but there still remains ten all-male boards. The Hampton-Alexander Review...Read More

FTSE 350 companies are being urged to fill senior positions with more women, in order to make the UK a world leader on gender diversity. A government-backed review is urging companies to renew their commitment to diversity, filling more board and senior leadership positions with talented women. Figures published today in the Hampton-Alexander Review 2017,...Read More

This independent review by Sir Philip Hampton and the late Dame Helen Alexander, commissioned by the government, looks at ways to ensure that talented women at the top of business are recognised, promoted and rewarded. The focus of the review is on senior women below the company board. DOWNLOAD THE REPORTRead More

Sir Philip Hampton claims that the BBC’s female presenters let the gender pay gap happen. Hampton, who co-chairs the government-commissioned review into gender equality, suggested that female BBC stars “let it [the pay gap] happen,” by not asking for a pay rise. He also went on to claim that he had “never, ever had a...Read More

The drive to get more women on corporate boards has come to a halt, according to a new report. The research, published by The Pipeline, has found that the percentage of women on FTSE 350 executive committees has been stuck on 16 per cent as of April. This is the same level as recorded in...Read More

Business Minister, Margot James has urged FTSE 350 firms to improve their gender transparency. James is urging chief executives of FTSE 350 companies to be more transparent about the number of women in their leadership positions and hand over data to independent reviewers on increasing female representation in business. The minister’s comments come after the...Read More

With FTSE 350 companies now asked to build the representation of women on their boards to 33% and British business in its sixth year of progress to increase the number of women in the boardroom, it is time to apply a similar framework to improving the number of women in the all-important leadership roles below...Read More