join the debate on women in leadership
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Join the debate on Women in Leadership
• There are statistics. Only 5.8% of FTSE 100 executive board members are women; there are only four women in the UK cabinet. Yet data doesn’t tell you very much…
• To understand this issue, we need to delve in to the reasons why women are so under-represented in senior, decision-making roles. Then there’s the debate about how the balance can be remedied. The women in leadership agenda is both broad and at times, controversial
• It needs to be. If the situation could be changed by well-meaning articles and the setting of targets, it would have transformed decades ago
• What I also welcome is the engagement of more people right across the agenda – which is why I congratulate The Guardian on the recent launch of its Women in Leadership website section and the Telegraph for the Business feature within its Women section
• Raising the profile of the debate can only be for the good for everyone
