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Revealed: females make up less than 10 per cent of top 100's equity partner ranks

The following letter, published in Wednesday's Times this week, on the subject of board quotas is rather au point: "The misconception that underlies the resistance to imposing boardroom quotas is that there are only a limited number of 'good' (suitably qualified and experienced) women and that quotas will lead to 'poor' (ineffectual) women being appointed over 'good' men. In reality there are as many cracking professional women as men out there, in ample numbers to fill quotas ten times over. Women will rise to their posts and skill up appropriately as they do now lower down the job market and as men have been doing as they have historically taken up these top posts. The reason for higher ratios of men continually being appointed are rooted in comfort, tradition and unconscious bias, which quotas are needed effectively to bust."

2-Nov-2012

2:55 pm