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Women on top JOB NEWS


Women scaling new career height on the road to boardroom diversity A couple of weeks ago marked the second anniversary of Lord Davies’s report ‘Women on Boards’, which recommended that FTSE 100 boards should aim for a minimum of 25% female representation by 2015. Two years on, figures show that female representation on corporate boards has increased to 17.3%, up from 12.5%. Liz Field, CEO of the Financial Skills


Partnership (FSP), says that businesses are missing out by not having more women in the board room: “Boards perform far better if people come from a range of diverse backgrounds. It is very important to work with business leaders to create avenues of growth to help lead a new generation of women to top boardroom positions… Many businesses could still do more to ensure they attract and recruit board directors from a wider pool, improving gender representation and other forms of diversity on their boards.”


Credit where it’s due


Nominations Open for 2013 Vitalise Women of the Year Awards The Vitalise Women of the Year Awards, which recognise the achievements of women in business, are now open for nominations for 2013. Last year’s ceremony saw


celebrated fashion entrepreneur Karen Millen appear as a special guest speaker. The 2012 Business Woman of


the Year prize went to UK Container Maintenance co-founder Emma Elston, who has grown her business into one of the largest container refurbishment companies in the world, refurbishing 75,000 containers per year. The 2013 awards will be held on


11 October at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. The awards are now accepting nominations in the Business Woman of the Year category.


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