It’s great there is more equality in boardrooms, but too many women still get a raw deal at workFeminism is a numbers game and 50% is one of our most hallowed benchmarks. So the fact that one in four FTSE 100 board positions is now held by women represents real progress up from just one in eight five years ago – but also shows just how far there is still to go to achieve gender equality at the top of British commerce. This is particularly accurate given that most board positions held by women are non-executive: it’s easier to appoint women to these oversight roles than fix the longer-term issue of the executive talent pipeline.
It’s these sort of metrics – the proportion of women setting corporate strategy and the proportion making our laws against which the success of the feminist movement is often judged. And with beneficial reason. No society can claim to be committed to gender equality whether the dial isn’t shifting in the fair direction at the top.
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Source: theguardian.com