A new gender gap report from the World Economic Forum finds women making progress in the workplace, but there remain too few in the boardroom and C-suite
International Women's Day was ushered in triumphantly as Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director. But the corporate world managed to take the shine off the success as the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report criticising businesses around the world for failing to close the gender gap.
This came as the Prime Minister said it was "unacceptable" that there were UK firms without any female board representation and added that if nothing changed "we will need to consider taking more serious action." The WEF yesterday released its Corporate Gender Gap Report, a study into some of the world's largest companies, which found that many had failed to address equal pay and were losing female talent.
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