I was taken aback last week, to put it mildly, by the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Meyer's take on flexible working. It struck me as being an enormously retrograde step, based on mistaken views, and doubly puzzling coming both from the boss of a technology firm and someone who has...

Regulators are all over the banks dishing out fines for the Libor fixing scandal. It does feel very much like bolting the stable door when the horse has already bolted. And the reforms feel incredibly flimsy particularly the one about allowing banks to keep their rates secret for three months...

The latest IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) census reports that the proportion of senior women (Chair, CEO or MD) has risen from a paltry 13.5% last year to a more respectable 21.5% this year. That's an impressive shift albeit from a frankly astonishingly low base. You would have thought...

On 14 November, the EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, is due to announce revised proposals for European companies to appoint more women onto their boards. This follows an earlier attempt last month to achieve political consensus. The vote in October was delayed by legal concerns that the proposals went too...

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed watching Aussie prime minister Julia Gillard's recent public demolition of her opposite number, Tony Abbott, over his call for the speaker, Peter Slipper, to resign. So often, we women feel we have to rein in our passion when we seek to influence in...