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Women in the boardroom

April 2024

  • Woman and other guests at evening event

    ‘Danger zone’: the warnings designed to protect women at UK business events

    Codes of conduct are on the rise, and have a focus on reputational risk as well as on harassment

March 2024

  • The politician in a TV studio

    Labour says it will use state bank to fund female-led businesses

    Shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq to reveal plan for target to end financial exclusion of women
  • Blurred City of London workers walking past high-rise office buildings in the UK’s financial district.

    MPs call for crackdown on NDAs after bullying inquiry in UK financial sector

    Recommendation to ban non-disclosure agreements comes as report uncovers ‘shocking’ prevalence of sexual harassment
  • a multiple exposure, elevated view of high rise financial buildings in the City of London illuminated at dusk

    Sexism in the City: ‘No matter how hard I work, they will never ever recognise me’

    Exclusive: witnesses to UK parliament’s inquiry share their stories from the world of finance

January 2024

  • The Telegraph CEO Anna Jones

    Anna Jones: media big-hitter and champion of female entrepreneurs

  • Denise Coates

    Billionaire Bet365 boss pockets further £270m

December 2023

  • Françoise Bettencourt Meyers looking at the camera

    L’Oréal heiress and board member is first woman to amass $100bn fortune

    Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, whose grandfather founded the company in 1909, became $28.6bn richer

November 2023

  • HR managers interviewing female job applicant.

    One in seven HR heads believe men are better suited to top jobs

    ‘Shocking’ poll in England and Wales shows nearly one in five reluctant to hire women they think may go on to have children
  • women and men confer in the boardroom

    ‘Blind spots’ revealed as UK’s top firms have women in just one in five commercial roles

    Largest 350 listed firms ‘making glacial progress’ to remove barriers to women at work, says Pipeline gender parity study

    • Over the glass cliff: female chief executives have shorter tenure than men due to crisis management roles

    • Bank cut my bonus because I had a baby, says MP leading City sexism inquiry

    • Observer business profile
      Harriett Baldwin: the fund manager turned Tory MP fighting sexism in the City

September 2023

  • Crispin Odey

    FCA draws up tougher rules to protect women from workplace abuse

    Watchdog thought to be including guidance on its ‘fit and proper’ test for non-financial misconduct

July 2023

  • New BT CEO Allison Kirkby.

    BT appoints Allison Kirkby as company’s first female CEO

  • Alison Rose stands next to a window

    Was NatWest’s Alison Rose held to a higher standard than male bank bosses?

    Ann Francke

June 2023

  • Workers leave Canary Wharf tube station

    More women on UK boards but number of female bosses flatlines

    Proportion of women on boards of 585 FTSE all-share listed companies rises from 36% to 40%, data shows

May 2023

  • Anne Boden is both chief executive and a major shareholder in Starling Bank.

    Starling Bank founder steps down as CEO to avoid potential conflict of interest

    Anne Boden is also a major shareholder and hopes move will shield online bank from possible concerns

March 2023

  • Jacqueline Gold

    Ann Summers supremo Jacqueline Gold dies aged 62

  • The Spanish finance minister Nadia Calviño (left)

    Spain approves draft law for gender quotas in business and politics

February 2023

  • Double exposure of business people who work together in office

    Women in board roles at UK’s biggest listed firms above 40% for first time

    Review shows only 10 of FTSE 350 companies still have all-male executive teams
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