Punish companies that keep women out of top jobs, new PM told

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City heavyweights have called on the next prime minister to punish companies that continue to keep women out of the boardroom.

Dame Inga Beale, who was the first female boss of insurance market Lloyd’s of London and stood down last year, said the “time for action around setting targets and quotas for gender balance in senior leadership roles is here, with repercussions for those that don’t achieve it”.

 

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Those best qualified should be selected. Sex should not be an issue.

You know what always puts my mind at ease when I go to a restaurant? Knowing that precisely 50% of the management are women. If it were any other way one would presume that there’d be rats in the soup.

Absolutely, were would AMD be without Lisa Su. Talent is talent regardless of gender.

People get jobs on merit not gender

Who are the real fascists?

Sorry to tell you, but one reason we want BorisJohnson is so that we can kick into touch identity politics for good Rest assured that if these women have talent, they will get in the boardroom, but it will be on merit, not because they have fallopian tubes 👍

What does keep women out of the boardroom mean? Did they work as hard as fellow Male workers but still denied promotion? Or are women expecting to be handed a boardroom position just to stupidly ‘even numbers out’?

Not a meritocracy then. Do they get bonus points if it's a disabled, black transgender woman?

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