Maria Caulfield MP , Minister for Women
Maria Caulfield is the minister for women, as well as a health minister. She is responsible for driving women’s policy and the government’s wider priorities for women and girls.
Every boss has heard about the obstacles women face at work. HR magazines and LinkedIn are full of articles on:
the challenge of juggling kids and career
The barriers between women and the boardroom table
the misery of managing menopause in an open plan office
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But today I want to expand on this vital topic. I want to talk about why equality at work is not just something we all want to achieve because it benefits women. I want to explain how increasing equality at work means increasing profits, growth, and success.
What industry thinks
Businesses agree. In 2019, 57% of companies surveyed around the world said that initiative s eumetsat publishes first image of new weather satellite on gender diversity and equality have helped to enhance business outcomes. Six in 10 of those surveyed listed boosts in profit and productivity as alb directory some of the benefits.
Read the Women in Business and Management survey report on the International Labour Organization (ILO) website
Women on board
Prioritising gender equality means properly using the skills of a significant proportion of your workforce.
More than 50% of the UK is female. But when we look at the top tiers of businesses, the gender make-up does not reflect this. In February, the FTSE Women Leaders Review announced that, finally, 2 out of 5 board seats at FTSE 350 companies are now held by women. We want to see this trickle down so the best people get the big jobs.
Forty-three percent of science, technology, engineering and maths vacancies are hard to fill, according to research.