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Women at the Top
Jun 15, 2012
Jun 15, 2012
Plotting an executive route
An increasing number of companies are appointing chief operating officers. Liz Bolshaw speaks to two women who have taken on this influential role
Jun 15, 2012
Q&A: Dr Mamphela Ramphele
The former World Bank managing director says she is still an activist for democracy
Mar 8, 2012
The struggle continues for more boardroom diversity
The rise in the proportion of female directors globally is glacial, with only legislation seeming to force the pace of change, writes Liz Bolshaw
Mar 7, 2012
Pressure builds to smash the glass ceiling
A year on from Lord Davies’ report, the move towards greater gender in the boardroom is happening far too slowly, writes Sharon Glancy
Mar 7, 2012
Breaking the City mould
Liz Bolshaw quizzes India Gary-Martin, managing director, technology and operations, at JPMorgan’s investment bank in London
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Mar 7, 2012
Routes to the top table
Business guru Candida Brush on how to succeed as a female entrepreneur
Jan 26, 2012
Davies report update: one year on
Liz Bolshaw looks at how companies have moved to increase the representation of women on boards, 12 months on from Lord Davies’ review
Jan 26, 2012
Female politicians point the way towards equality
Rebecca Knight on how quotas in government are helping to boost gender diversity around the world
Jan 27, 2012
View from Davos
Miki Tsusaka on how women can help the global economy achieve its great transformation
Dec 7, 2011
Japan: culture change required
Social norms and a lack of childcare hinder government bids to make the most of the country’s well-educated female workforce, writes Lindsay Whipp
Dec 7, 2011
Entrepreneurial sisters are doing it for themselves
Rebecca Knight finds that many female-owned small businesses offer a good work/life balance
Dec 7, 2011
Facing the questions
Jill Abramson is the executive editor of the New York Times, the first woman in this role in the paper’s 160-year history
Nov 15, 2011
Risk rewarded
Why taking risks has helped women power their way into boardrooms around the world, writes Andrew Hill
Nov 15, 2011
The top 50 women in world business 2011
Read the full profiles, view photographs and comment on our ranking
Nov 15, 2011
Video: US committed to advancing women’s rights
Melanne Verveer, US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, explains why progess is being made in advancing women’s rights
Nov 15, 2011
Q&A: Laurence Parisot, president of Medef
Laurence Parisot holds a master’s degree in public law and was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2003
Nov 16, 2011
Video: Asia is key to success in luxury goods
Sung-Joo Kim, head of MCM Group, on her career and the business of luxury
Nov 15, 2011
Afterword: still a way to go
Could it be that the dearth of women at the senior level is down to a time lag, or is it deliberate choice?
Nov 15, 2011
Q&A: Dina de Angelo, director at Pictet
Dina de Angelo grew up in Connecticut, Greenwich, and has spent her whole career in private banking, working with large, complex, family offices
Nov 15, 2011
Exit strategies: hoping for a better fit
A senior woman’s departure can create as much of a buzz as her arrival
Seeking equality
Oct 11, 2011
Enter the awards here
The ingenuity awards are open to applicants from anywhere in the world who have put into practice an ingenious idea in an urban context in four specific sectors: education, energy, healthcare and infrastructure.
Andrew Hill
Oct 11, 2011
Setting standards will encourage greater diversity
Two new initiatives seek to establish common ways to measure progress,
Oct 11, 2011
‘You can do what you set your mind to’
Lori Cohen, a successful female trial attorney explains her career
Oct 11, 2011
Véronique Morali champions women in business
The French businesswoman campaigns for more female representation
Oct 11, 2011
Queen bees – an evolving species or an office myth?
Do women who undermine their female colleagues really exist?
Oct 11, 2011
Interview: Television ‘dragon’ Deborah Meaden reveals the secrets of her success
An independent nature and a lack of fear served her well
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A look at women’s level of representation in government in regions around the world
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