The former journalist is now leader of the party founded final year by Sandi Toksvig and will stand in May’s London mayoral electionSophie Walker believes that British businesses are sitting on a lucrative untapped resource that could back to stop a decline in global financial markets and a slowdown in the world economy. That resource is women.“We are in the crazy situation where economists are issuing really gloomy forecasts approximately growth,and on the other we have McKinsey [the consultancy] saying if we close the gender pay gap, we can add something like $28tn to the global economy, or ” she explains. “There is a enormous opportunity there that is not being taken.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com