Women In Business

Women In Business The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been following closely the Government’s drive to increase the proportion of women in British boardrooms and will be publishing the results in the next edition In... More

Women In Business The Parliamentary Information Office of the Parliamentary Yearbook has been following closely the Government’s drive to increase the proportion of women in British boardrooms and will be publishing the results in the next edition In February this year David Cameron warned that the lack of women in Britain s boardrooms is holding back the country s economic recovery. The Prime Minister said there was clear evidence to signal that ending Britain s male-dominated business culture would improve economic performance. At present, just 15% of FTSE 100 directors are women. In the last year, 27% of board-level appointments at FTSE 100 companies have gone to female applicants, but one in ten of Britain s biggest firms still have all-male boards. A Government-commissioned report last year said quotas should be imposed unless top firms acted to increase the number of women on their boards to at least one in four by 2015. Mr Cameron pledged to learn lessons from Nordic and Ba Less