Posts Tagged ‘tabitha cole’

Debate on women in the boardroom hots up as Davies Review nears

Friday, February 4th, 2011

As the Davies Review comes ever closer to publishing its views, Aviva chief marketing officer Amanda Mackenzie and Baroness Kingsmill join the debate.

30% Club secures first female “supporting chairman”

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

The 30% Club, which launched last November to encourage businesses to adopt voluntary gender targets for their boards, has signed up its first female “supporting chairman”.

Double Dip Recession fears as GDP goes negative

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures out this morning revealed a shock fall of 0.5 per cent for the last quarter of 2010. Economists had been expecting a quarter of growth and now fears are growing of a double dip recession.

Training blueprint launched to help women into boardrooms

Friday, January 21st, 2011

A leading organisation for senior women in the City has unveiled details of a new Board Readiness Programme to help boost the number of women in Britain’s boardrooms.

WEF will see few women in Davos despite new quota

Friday, January 21st, 2011

The World Economic Forum is attempting to force the rich, famous and powerful to send more women to its annual gathering in Davos next week, but a but a third of elite companies about to put people on planes will not be sending a single female.

Cameron piles on the pressure over quotas for women

Friday, January 21st, 2011

The government has attempted to ratchet-up the pressure on business over boardroom quotas after Downing Street claimed they may impose a 40 per cent quota on FTSE firms.

First official kitemark awarded to web product that offers child safety online

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

The first Child Safety Online Kitemark to help parents protect their children from inappropriate content on the internet has been awarded to a web firm.

Parliamentary group calls for women’s prisons to be closed but warns of looming funding crisis

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

The government faces renewed calls to shut down women’s prisons amid warnings that their replacements, multi-functional centres, are already facing a funding crisis.