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| Publish date | Headline | Publication | Source | Summary |
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| 04/01/2011 | Female sociologist claims gender pay gap 'down to women' | Women in Technology - London | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | A controversial new report is due to be published by a female sociologist who argues that the gender pay gap is down to women's lifestyle choices and that fighting for gender equality in the workplace is no longer an issue. The CIB submitted its arguments to Lord Davies' review into female representation at senior level, particularly after Cranfield School of Management's 2010 Female FTSE report revealed that the proportion of women in senior roles was 12.5 per cent. The Cranfield report highlighted worrying statistics which showed that within a two year period, the proportion of women in senior roles increased by only 0.5 per cent which accounted for just three new female executives. |
| 11/01/2011 | Radio interview | BBC Radio 4 | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Dr Ruth Sealy was interviewed for a special series called ‘Follow the Leader’ which examined the challenges of modern leadership, from stepping up to the top job, to stepping down. She commented specifically on the gender gap in leadership and referred to the 2010 Cranfield Female FTSE report. |
| 20/01/2011 | Can women solve the banking crisis? | The Times | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | As more females reach the top of Britain’s financial institutions, will the face of banking be changed for ever – and for the better? The McKinsey report, Women Matter, showed that companies with more than three women on their corporate board have an 80 per cent higher return on equity. No wonder banks are in a scramble to recruit more women. While there are more than 1.3 million jobs in financial services, with women employed on a ratio of 51:49 per cent, last year's Female FTSE Index, produced by Cranfield School of Management, shows that there are only 12.5 per cent of women on the top 100 director's boards. To speed up the process, Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, and Roger Carr, chairman of Centrica, have launched a new initiative, the 30% Club, encouraging UK companies to aim for at least 30 per cent female representation on their boards by 2015. |
| 01/02/2011 | Women must get aboard | Management Today | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | This month, Lord Davies of Abersoch, former Labour trade minister and chairman of Standard Chartered Bank, and now private equity entrepreneur, will present his report on how to increase the representation of women on British boards. It is probably worth reminding ourselves just how dire the situation is for women aspiring to senior roles on British corporate boars. The indefatigable Professor Susan Vinnicombe, and her team from the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders, have for the past 10 years produced the Female FTSE Board Report. Their findings demonstrate that there has been an increase in the pace of improvement in the number of board positions held by women almost everywhere in the world, except for the Uk and the US. Here, it has plateaued t around 12% for the third year running, while in America it has been stuck at 15% for the past five years. |
| 01/02/2011 | Report authors call for changes to appointments process | Milton Keynes Citizen | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | The 2010 Female FTSE report from Cranfield School of Management has revealed another year of barely noticable change in the number of women in leadership positions of the UK's top 100 companies. Report co-author Dr. Ruth Sealy said: "There is still too much female talent not making it to the boardroom." |
| 03/02/2011 | Women are needed in top jobs to bring fresh views | Financial Times | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield’s Female FTSE report is mentioned in an interview with Sylvia Perrins, chief executive of the National Skills Academy for Financial Services. |
| 14/02/2011 | Why quotas are the wrong answer | City A.M. | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Quotas are wrong. In a free, liberal society, people should never be given jobs just because they happen to be part of a particular group. Applicants should be judged soley on their merits - for their abiliy to perform and their motivation - and not on whether they tick an arbitrary box. there should be no discrimination against or in favour of any group and no favouritism. So says, CITY a.m. editor Allister Heath. Other solutions are needed. The share of female FTSE 100 directors seems stuck at 12.5 per cent as Cranfield's annual FTSE board report points out. |
| 19/02/2011 | No board quotas for women | The Daily Mail | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Lord Mervyn Davies of Aberosch will, in the next couple of weeks, deliver his government-sponsored report into how women can smash the glass ceiling. He is likely to shy away from insisting companies appointing a quota of women to their boards. The Cranfield Female FTSE report for 2010 found that the percentage of directorships in the UK’s top 100 companies is static at 12.5% and that women account for only 1 in 20 executive director posts. |
| 20/02/2011 | Women on boards must rise by 2013 | Daily Star | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Companies are to be given two years in which to increase the number of women they have on their boards or they could face government quotas it has emerged. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE report, last year only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 20/02/2011 | Women on boards must rise by 2013 | Press Association | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Companies are to be given two years in which to increase the number of women they have on their boards or they could face government quotas it has emerged. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE report, last year only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 20/02/2011 | Women on boards must rise by 2013 | www.examiner.com | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Companies are to be given two years in which to increase the number of women they have on their boards or they could face government quotas it has emerged. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE report, last year only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 20/02/2011 | Women on boards must rise by 2013 | Shropshire Star Series | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Lord Davies is expected to recommend that a fifth of all board members be women by 2013. Companies are to be given two years in which to increase the number of women they have on their boards or they could face government quotas it has emerged. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE report, last year only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 20/02/2011 | Women on boards must rise by 2013 | www.chesterchronicle.co.uk | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Companies are to be given two years in which to increase the number of women they have on their boards or they could face government quotas it has emerged. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE report, last year only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 22/02/2011 | Women on boards must rise by 2013 | Express & Star Dudley (West Midlands) | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Lord Davies is expected to recommend that a fifth of all board members be women by 2013. Companies are to be given two years in which to increase the number of women they have on their boards or they could face government quotas it has emerged. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE report, last year only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 23/02/2011 | Women with strong leadership pootential need mentoring and coaching to get to the top | www.hrmagazine.co.uk | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The findings of the annual Cranfield Female FTSE board report could point to a negative state of affairs for women in business, but instead the author of the report remains optimistic that pressure from government and the CBI employers group will initiate change. |
| 24/02/2011 | Call for more women in boardroom | Press Association | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Companies are to be urged to increase the number of women they have on their boards in the next two years or face Government quotas. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE research, only 18 out of the 135 new non-executive directors who were appointed were women. |
| 24/02/2011 | The high-flier who loves the sound of breaking glass | Greater Manchester Business Week | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | As the findings of Lord Davies of Abersoch's review on gender equality in the UK's boardrooms are made public, this article profiles a leading businesswoman who is investigating whether a so-called glass ceiling exists in Greater Manchester. Cranfleld's Female FTSE research is referenced in the piece. |
| 01/03/2011 | NUS Business School Agenda track gender diversity in the boardroom | Singapore Government News | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | As the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day celebrates the achievements of women around the world, NUS Business School and Board Agender announce that they will team up to track gender diversity in the boardrooms of Singapore through the Singapore Board Diversity Index. Tracking female participation on corporate boards is a well established practice in various countries. Cranfield School of Management has been publishing the Female FTSE Board report since 1999. |
| 21/03/2011 | Davies report puts onus on firms | www.peoplemanagement.co.uk | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Business needs to act to get women on boards, writes Ruth Sealy. Cranfield School of Management's most recent Female FTSE Report concluded that women’s progress into the boardroom in the UK has all but stalled. This is against a background of increasing academic evidence on several dimensions of ‘the business case’ for increased boardroom diversity - talent, leadership, markets, risk, governance and performance. So we were obviously excited by the notion of a government review into women on boards and have contributed with evidence and opinion. |
| 31/03/2011 | Diversity challenge | Showhouse | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Women in construction are still hugely under-represented in an industry facing a skills shortage. A culture change is needed to meet equality and diversity issues. Dr. Ruth Sealy, co-author of Cranfield's Female FTSE report and academic advisor to the CBI report 'Room at the top' said: "You can't deny the history of the construction sector so I wouldn't expect so many women on the boards yet. It's more important to ensure women are coming up through the pipeline for future. It is noticeable that the one executive director among FTSE250 housebuilders comes from a finance background rather than operations." |
| 01/04/2011 | Keeping the boardroom door shut | Director | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Lord Davies' report Women on Boards will do little to rectify the dearth of senior women in the UK's top companies. His rejection of imposed quotas in favour of voluntary targets of at least 25 per cent female representation on FTSE-100 boards by 2015 lets companies off the hook. According to the most recent Female FTSE report from Cranfield, women still made up only 12.5 per cent of the members of FTSE 100 boards and 7.8 percent of FTSE 250 boards in 2010. |
| 26/05/2011 | Gender and the workplace | Financial Times | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Professor Susan Vinnicombe and Cranfield’s Female FTSE report are featured in a special report on Gender and the workplace. While the numbers of women reaching junior management levels are rising, efforts to increase their representation at senior management levels appear to have stalled. “The glass ceiling has been pushed up but there’s still a significant absence of women in top positions,” says Professor Susan Vinnicombe, professor of organisational behaviour and diversity management. |
| 19/06/2011 | Women told to speak their minds to get on in boardrooms | The Observer | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Women – including those who work in senior positions for some of the country's leading firms – are held back from reaching the very highest levels in business because of the difficulties they find in striking the right tone of language during high pressure meetings. According to the annual Female FTSE Board report from Cranfield School of Management, the proportion of women on the boards of FTSE-100 companies is only 12.5%, a marginal rise on the previous year. |
| 22/06/2011 | Female executives' language harms their prospects | www.taipeitimes.com | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Badly outnumbered by men in corporate boardrooms, women often use language that makes them appear weak acording to a recent study. According to Cranfield's Female FTSE board report, the proportion of women on the boards of FTSE100 companies is only 12.5%. |
| 04/07/2011 | The case for quotas in the boardroom | The House Magazine | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield has been monitoring women's progress in the boordroom for more than a decade. The Cranfield Female FTSE report, December 2010 concluded that progress in the UK has all but stalled. |
| 03/08/2011 | Getting women on the board | www.hrmagazine.co.uk | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Community Business and the Cranfield School of Management published the first Women on Boards: Hang Seng Index 2009 report. The research, based on the UK’s renowned Female FTSE Report, looks at the representation of women on the corporate boards of Hong Kong’s top companies, as listed on the Hang Seng Index (HSI). It ranks the companies in terms of the gender diversity of their boards, with those with the highest percentage of women on their boards appearing at the top. |
| 23/08/2011 | Scottish boardroom changes for women '10 years away' | BBC News Online | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield's 2010 Female FTSE report is quoted in an article which says the majority of senior Scottish businesswomen believe it will take at least a decade before female board members become commonplace. |
| 24/08/2011 | UK firms look set to fail to meet board gender targets | The Independent | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Since the Davies report was published on 24 February, 18 women have been appointed to the boards of FTSE 100 firms, representing 31 per cent of the total over the period That’s twice the proportion seen in any previous year. But such figures don’t impress Professor Susan Vinnicombe, director of the International Centre for Women Leaders, who publishes an annual Female FTSE board report said: “From what we’ve seen so far a number of companies have simply commented that they already achieve the 25 per cent target while others say they are aiming towards it. But we haven’t seen any great detail on what their initiatives are going to be to tackle gender diversity.” |
| 10/10/2011 | Women start to make their presence felt on the board | City A.M. | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The boardrooms of Britain are becoming more female, says former trade minister Lord Davies. In December last year, the most recent Female FTSE Index report from Cranfield School of Management showed that 14 per cent of FTSE 100 board posts are held by women. |
| 12/10/2011 | Signs of improvement but boards still need to be bolder when it comes to appointing women | ABS the Association of Business Schools | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The number of women now holding FTSE 100 board directorships is 155 out of a total of 1,092 positions (14.2%). This is up from the 12.5% published in the 2010 Female FTSE report from Cranfield. |
| 12/10/2011 | Boards prove slow to promote women | Financial Times | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | In the six months since Lord Davies launched his independent review into women on boards, only 33 FTSE 100 companies have heeded his recommendation to set themselves targets for the number of women they aim to have on their boards. Of these 33, only ten have set themselves targets of greater than a 10% increase. The Lord Davies’ review (published in February) recommended that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should aim for a minimum of 25% female board member representation by 2015. A progress report published by Cranfield School of Management has revealed that since the review, 21 women have been appointed to board positions out of a possible 93. This represents 22.5% of all new appointments, some way short of the 33% recommended in the Davies report. The number of women now holding FTSE 100 board directorships is 155 out of a total of 1,092 positions (14.2%). This is up from the 12.5% published in the 2010 Female FTSE report from Cranfield (December 2010). Professor Susan Vinnicombe OBE, co-author of the Cranfield report said: “Our review reveals that the number of women in board positions is beginning to creep up albeit quite slowly. There are however some very encouraging signs. Fourteen out of the 21 FTSE 100 new appointees (67%) and 20 out of the 28 FTSE 250 new appointees (72%) had no prior FTSE 100 or FTSE 250 board experience. This suggests the appointment process is beginning to open up to new women. This is very positive and indicates that some Chairmen and search consultancies are following Lord Davies' recommendations to broaden the talent pool.” |
| 05/11/2011 | Annual Female FTSE Report | Precise Media Planner | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield School of Management publishes its annual female FTSE report aorund now, monitoring the male-female composition of FTSE boardrooms and acting as a barometer of diversity in UK business. |
| 10/02/2012 | Annual Female FTSE report | Precise Media Planner | Cranfield event/lecture | On 13 March, Cranfield School of Management publishes its Annual Female FTSE report, monitoring the male-female composition of FTSE boardrooms. |
| 29/02/2012 | Annual Female FTSE Report | Precise Media Planner | Cranfield event/lecture | Cranfield School of Management publishes its Annual Female FTSE Report, monitoring the male-female composition of FTSE boardrooms. |
| 10/03/2012 | We need more women filling middle ranks | This is Money.co.uk | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | There will be back-slapping over the appointment of more women to the boards of British companies when Cranfield's Female FTSE index shows that in the year since Lord Davies published his report, the proportion of women directors has risen from 12.5 per cent to about 15 per cent. |
| 11/03/2012 | Meet the women who lead the charge in our top businesses | Independent on Sunday | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The Female FTSE Report published this Tuesday by Cranfield School of Management is expected to confirm that women hold about 15 per cent of directorships on FTSE 100 boards. But the pace of change is increasing: the figure was 12.5 per cent a year ago, 12.2 per cent in 2009 and 12 per cent in 2008. |
| 11/03/2012 | Number of women on FTSE boards is set to miss Government targets | The Mail on Sunday | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The launch of Cranfield’s annual Female FTSE report is expected to show that the proportion of female executive directors fell to just 6.1 per cent for Footsie firms and 4.4 per cent in FTSE 250 companies. |
| 12/03/2012 | Banks' macho culture 'holds women back' | The Guardian | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield School of Management releases its annual Female FTSE report, on the number of female executives on the boards of Britain's top 100 companies. It will show whether the City will hit the government's goal for 25% of boardroom directors to be female by 2015. |
| 12/03/2012 | Women still missing out on top jobs in the boardroom | Evening Standard | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Despite good progress in the overall number of female FTSE 100 directors to about 15%, a disproportionate number of these are in part-time non-executive roles, a study from Cranfield reveals. |
| 13/03/2012 | TV interview | Sky News | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Professor Susan Vinnicombe was interviewed live on the Jeff Randall show discussing the findings of the 2012 Cranfield Female FTSE report released on Tuesday. |
| 13/03/2012 | Women now make up a quarter of new FTSE board members | City A.M. | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Though overall numbers of women on FTSE boards are increasing, Cranfield School of Management's annual Female FTSE report does highlight how female directors are overwhelmingly taking up non-executive positions, with most executive roles still going to male candidates. |
| 13/03/2012 | Women on boards: one year on | M2 Presswire | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield's Female FTSE report notes that should current momentum be maintained, a record 26.7% female board representation in FTSE 100 companies would be achieved by 2015. |
| 13/03/2012 | TV interview | BBC News Channel | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Professor Susan Vinnicombe was interviewed talking about the findings of the 2012 Female FTSE report. |
| 13/03/2012 | Women in boardrooms: 'not enough progress' | LBC Radio - London's Biggest Conversation | Comment/quote/article by Cranfield staff | Professor Susan Vinnicombe was interviewed following the launch of the 2012 Female FTSE report. |
| 13/03/2012 | The Future for Women on Boards | ABS the Association of Business Schools | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The 2012 Female FTSE report from Cranfield urges the UK's top companies to ask themselves the question: Milestone or Millstone? when it comes to increasing the number of women on their boards. |
| 13/03/2012 | Women directors in Britain on course to reach goal of 25% in three years | Bloomberg.com | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The number of directorships held by women at companies in the UK's FTSE 100 index has risen to 15.6% and is on course to reach the target of 25 percent by 2015 according to Cranfield's Female FTSE report. |
| 13/03/2012 | No women in one tenth of FTSE 100 boardrooms | Google News | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The proportion of female directors on the boards of Britain's top companies has hit a record 15 percent, but one tenth of FTSE 100 boardrooms still have no women members, according to the latest Cranfield Female FTSE report. |
| 13/03/2012 | Women on boards: one year on | The Source Public Management Journal | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield School of Management's Female FTSE report notes that should current momentum be maintained, a record 26.7% female board representation in FTSE 100 companies would be achieved by 2015. |
| 13/03/2012 | No women in one tenth of FTSE 100 boardrooms: study | www.blnz.com | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | There are now 141 women holding 163 board seats in FTSE 100 firms, the 100 highest value companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, according to the Cranfield Female FTSE report. |
| 13/03/2012 | On year on: Largest ever annual increase of women on boards | www.hrmagazine.co.uk | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield's Female FTSE report notes should current momentum be maintained, a record 26.7% female board representation in FTSE 100 companies would be achieved by 2015. |
| 13/03/2012 | Too few women in top jobs could mean firms are foreced to promote females | www.mailonsunday.co.uk | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | Cranfield's Female FTSE report says firms are good at hiring young women to junior jobs, but too few make it to the top. |
| 13/03/2012 | Increase in number of women on the top boards of FTSE 100 companies in the UK | www.smeweb.com | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The latest Cranfield female FTSE report says that the number of women on the top boards of FTSE 100 companies in the UK has risen from 12.5% last March to 15.6%. |
| 13/03/2012 | Women director percentage 'rises to record high' | BBC News Online | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The percentage of women on the boards of the UK's largest-listed companies has risen over the past year to a record 15.6%. This compares with 12.5% last March according to Cranfield's Female FTSE report. |
| 13/03/2012 | Female FTSE board report released | www.fmwf.com | University research (International Centre for Women Leaders) | The number of women directors on top company boards has increased to a record 15% but is still well down on a target of 25% set by government-commissioned review, new research from Cranfield's Female FTSE report has revealed. |