Equality

How best to solve gender imbalance in the workplace?

A new paper by researchers at the University of Innsbruck suggests that from a young age – three years old – boys are more likely than girls to enter into competitive behaviour, and that this observed behaviour persists through childhood into adolescence. The paper is consistent with earlier studies which find a persistent and large …

Women in the city

The impression I got listening to a 5Live Breakfast debate on the latest report from the Treasury Select Committee titled “Women In The City”, was that it was recommending statutory action against firms which have inadequte female representation at the board level, and that the financial crisis would have been less severe had female representation …