Lord Mervyn Davies has been tasked with getting more women into the boardroom (a man's job?)
Faced with the task of finding someone to investigate why so few women make it to the top of the career ladder, you’d have thought it might make sense for the Government to ask a woman who has made it to the top of the career ladder – like leading US business academic and boardroom stalwart Laura Tyson, who wrote the last one. But this time round, equalities minister Lynne Featherstone and business minister Edward Davey have gone for a less obvious choice: namely ex-Standard Chartered boss Mervyn Davies, aka Lord Davies of Abersoch, aka a man. Is the Government seriously trying to tell us there are literally no UK-born women qualified to opine on this subject?
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