Recent research in Britain has found that businesses want to appoint women to their boards but cannot find enough experienced female candidates.
Recent research in Britain has found that businesses want to appoint women to their boards but cannot find enough experienced female candidates, reports The Financial Times.
Kathleen O’Donovan, deputy chairwoman of Great Portland estates and non-executive director at Prudential, Trinity Mirror, and ARM Holdings, co-founded with Isabel Bird, Bird & Co. Executive Board and Mentoring. The firm interviewed 36 directors of FTSE companies, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations, two-thirds of them women.
O’Donovan became the first FTSE 100’s first female finance director at BTR in 1991, but has found that businesses cannot appoint women as they’d like because not enough women are trained.
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