Shelagh McKinlay speculates why women are under represented in the boardroom.
Imagine if men held fewer than a third of the most senior positions in the UK. In politics the figure dropped to a fifth and in big business only 15 percent of the top jobs were held by men. Pretty shocking isn’t it? Shocking and, I admit, not true.
But in actual fact these statistics, gathered by the BBC, apply to the number of women holding down senior positions, not men. Still shocking but sadly, not surprising. They show that women are under-represented in the boardroom and, as it turns out, in the courtroom, in politics, in the media, even in the school Head’s office.
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