Evening Workshop Date: 27 June 2017 Time: 6.00 – 8.30pm Venue: Wallacespace St Pancras 22 Dukes Road London WC1H 9PN Cost: £39 Transport: Euston Station There are few experiences more draining than feeling like a phoney. The notion of being less competent than you should be or believing your success to be a bit of […]
Upcoming Workshops
Gender Pay Gap Masterclass – 6 July
The new gender pay gap reporting requirements will help to expose the discrepancies between what men and women earn. But how can we start to close the gender pay gap? Join The Glass Lift’s one day masterclass: Understand the complex barriers and challenges to reducing the gender pay gap. Explore strategies for reducing your gender […]
Promotion
New organisation for Investment Managers
Your invitation to learn more The Guild of Investment Managers has been formed to provide networking opportunities for people employed in the investment management industry. Its aim is to become a City of London Livery Company and is likely to appeal to people who are established in their career and want to meet likeminded […]
Diversity Matters
Diverse teams provide an immediate and long-lasting solution to the global problem of understaffed positions.
More diverse teams make better decisions and generate more revenue due to broader thinking, a wider set of problem-solving resources, and more varied and well-considered solutions. So it makes sense for a field like security and risk management, where talent is in short supply, to look to the presence and perspectives of women as […]
Do companies with women on the board perform better than companies whose boards are all-male?
Many commentators suggest that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom improves company performance because of the different points of view and experience it offers. However, rigorous, peer-reviewed academic research paints a different picture. Despite the intuitive appeal of the argument that gender diversity on the board improves company performance, research suggests otherwise. Do companies with […]
Leading Women Lawyers
Experiences, Expectations and Achievements The issue of gender progression in the legal profession has always been a hot potato, with the noticeable lack of women in senior roles never far from the headlines. The latest figures state that women in partnership roles in the UK’s top 100 firms is still, on average, at less than […]
WiC Comment
You can’t be what you can’t see – or can you?
As a sound-bite this phrase certainly has impact and is often used to explain why women are not succeeding as well as they might in the workplace, the inference being that there are insufficient women in leadership positions who other females wish to emulate. What are women’s expectations of role models, do all women want […]
Recent Reports
The path to a senior leadership position is a strenuous climb
A familiar senario When the opportunity for a promotion arises, Jeff and Linda, both on the same team, reach out to their manager, Bill, to indicate interest. Bill immediately proposes a lunch … [Read More...]
The economic gender gap will not close for another 170 years
Moving backwards Although much attention has been given to gender parity in recent years, research shows that, overall, we are actually moving backwards. Mercer’s When Women Thrive, Businesses … [Read More...]
The pinched-middle dropping out of management consultancy
It’s a well known fact that management consulting firms struggle qit retaining women and promoting them to the highest ranks. Diversity at the top remains elusive, with the vast majority of … [Read More...]
Acquisitions are cheaper the more women there are on a corporate board
A study by UBC Sauder School of Business finance Professor Kai Li and published in the Journal of Corporate Finance paper shows the cost of a successful acquisition is reduced by 15.4% with each … [Read More...]
