More women in senior roles

The Scottish Government has announced plans for a ‘Women in Public Life’ summit to take place on 5th November. It will consider issues around the appointment of women onto public boards and what might prevent women from applying for positions on public body organisations and come up with a programme of actions to address these.

Figures show that 39.2% of all appointments to public body organisations in the last year were women and that women now account for more than 35% of all board members on public boards.

The Scottish Government is keen to see women represented at a minimum of 40% of all board positions.

The summit will also consider what can be done to sustain the improvement in women’s representation achieved this year and what lessons can be learned to increase overall diversity on public boards.

Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport Shona Robison, who also has responsibility for equalities, said:

“We have done a lot of work around gender to ensure that women are represented on public boards and in senior management roles. However we also acknowledge that other groups also face barriers and we reach out to those groups as well as part of our plans to improve diversity and drive forward progress in a modern and equal 21st century Scotland.”

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