Month: March 2011

Following the publication of Lord Davies’ review into women in the boardroom, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said it intends to make boardroom diversity a priority for its investigations.

  25th March 2011. In August last year the Government asked Lord Davies to investigate the reason why there were so few women at board level in the UK’s larger companies and to make recommendations to increase gender equality. Lord Davies’ report, “Women on Boards”, was published on 24 February 2011. Companies will no doubt …

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AN EXTREME WORLD – TRAFFICKING AND THE OPT-IN

For those who carefully consider and monitor the subject of trafficking, Ross Kemp’s Extreme World episode on trafficking[1], whilst interesting, did not provide anything new on the plight of victims and the number of women trafficked into the United Kingdom However it did again remind viewers, who are not so aware, that there is a …

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WOMEN ON BOARDS REPORT

  Having finally read through Lord Davies’ “Women-on-Boards” report, http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/business-law/docs/w/11-745-women-on-boards.pdf, it was good to see that Lord Davies did not advocate specific percentage quotas but recommended that  UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should be aiming for a minimum of 25% female board member representation by 2015 and that FTSE 350 companies should be …

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No board quotas for women

19 February 2011 – At a grand City dinner last year hosted by one of the UK’s biggest companies, Lord Mervyn Davies of Abersoch gave an impassioned speech about the importance of having more female directors on top corporate boards. He could see for himself what he was up against. Not counting the waitresses, I …

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