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Pushing the Boundaries
More female trailblazers will persuade women to launch businesses, helping the economy and wider society.
Smashing the corporate glass ceiling has always been the ultimate goal for ambitious females but many women are now choosing to start their own businesses. Sadly, there are not enough of them—yet. There are more highly qualified women than ever before—in the U.S., females earn 60 percent of master's degrees and 42 percent of MBAs. But at the same time, we're still to make even a small dent in the U.K. corporate world. Only 11 percent of directors in FTSE-100 companies are female. At this rate of progress it will be another 60 years before women in Britain achieve parity on company boards, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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Should We Force Boards to Recruit More Women?
By Richard Cree
[caption id="attachment_1448" align="alignleft" width="259" caption="Kate Robertson at One Young World"][/caption]Earlier this year, I interviewed David Jones, global CEO of advertising agency Havas Worldwide. Jones spoke eloquently about his work with the One Young World youth project and was passionate about his belief that social media was changing business forever. But the meeting was most memorable because I made the sort of faux pas we all dread. Not being familiar with the offices of Euro RSCG—or its key staff—I had no idea that the woman who came to collect me from reception and who offered me tea was not Jones’s PA, but rather Kate Robertson, the company’s feisty chairman. Jones was borrowing her office and she was just being nice.
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