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Women in the Boardroom: the Legality of All-Women Shortlists

As a general rule, women are underrepresented in most high paid or high profile professions. While many people believe that this problem will correct itself overtime, for others, positive discrimination is required to catalyze that change.

Positive discrimination involves giving disadvantaged groups who face discrimination in everyday life, such as women, the disabled or ethnic minorities, favourable treatment on the basis of their protected characteristic. An example of this is all-women shortlists for jobs, whereby all the candidates are female and the success of a woman is guaranteed.

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Women on FTSE 100 Boards

The latest figures from Professional Boards Forum BoardWatch show new psychological milestones have been reached in the percentage of women on FTSE 100 boards.

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Women’s summit tackles barriers

Partnership working is needed to tackle the barriers too many woman still face in being appointed to serve on public boards, said Equalities Minister Shona Robison at the Scottish Government’s summit ‘Women On Board: Quality through Diversity’.

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More mothers than ever are the main family earner

Maternal breadwinning is the highest since records began, with over two million working mums now the main family earner, a rise of 80% in the last 15 years, according to a new report by the think tank IPPR.

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