Never mind the glass ceiling – what about the basement?
Laurie Penny, blogging for the New Statesman this week, writes: “Don’t worry about the glass ceiling – the basement is flooding.”
She argues that campaigns to increase diversity among senior management in the City of London and in the boardroom are “arrant twaddle” and based on false logic. (more…)
Morrisons aims to boost senior women in grocery retail industry
You might think that supermarkets in the UK, whose customers are 70 per cent female, would have more than the average number of women at board or senior management level. But you’d be wrong. (more…)
Healthcare industry still lacks women at the top
Anna Protopapas is a rarity in the corporate world. Not only is she one of a small number of top-ranking women in the biopharmaceutical industry, but as executive vice-president of global business development at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, she is also one of only a few women at the top of a Japanese company. (more…)
The secrets of personal marketing for women
Korn/Ferry International, the recruitment firm, has just published a book for job seekers billed as an “exclusive opportunity to get behind-the-scenes insight from top consultants” on how to manage your career. (more…)
Want to get ahead? Cover that cleavage, says research
A few days ago, The Sun reported on a survey undertaken by Stylecompare.co.uk, a fashion website, that found that about six out of 10 bosses cited women showing too much cleavage as the ultimate fashion offence. (more…)
Crisis in leadership: will women rise to the challenge at Scotland Yard?
I am not much of a betting woman, but the leadership vacuum at the top of London’s Metropolitan Police has created something of a frenzy of interest at the country’s bookmakers.
The two top jobs at Scotland Yard are up for grabs, as Sir Paul Stephenson, commissioner, and John Yates, assistant commissioner, have fallen on their swords in the phone-hacking scandal. Two of Britain’s most senior policewomen are in the running; were either of them to be successful, it would be a first for the Met. (more…)
Masculine models of leadership prevail
A new report by Northwestern University, Chicago, shows that both men and women still see women as being less qualified or less “natural” in leadership roles. (more…)
Lessons on the way to the top
A new course on leadership at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, will give more than a dozen of its female MBA students a taste of what it feels like to be at the top – the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, that is. (more…)
Why working mothers need a flexible approach
After I had my first baby, I was a wreck about returning to work. I was so tired from the middle-of-the-night feedings and the tormented crying jags that I could not imagine how on earth I would function again as a professional. But I was also so infatuated with my daughter that I could not imagine being away from her for nine hours a day. (more…)
Equality: are we there yet?
It may be more than 200 years since the Jacobins ran through the streets of Paris to the rallying cry of “Liberté, egalité, fraternité, ou la mort”, but while these principles still underpin our ideas of civilised society, their interpretation remains the subject of fierce debate. (more…)
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