Justin Welby used his first Easter sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury to warn of the dangers of investing too much faith in 'hero leaders'. As a leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, it is natural that Welby should want to set expectations about what one individual can do.

Discussions of diversity in business have long focussed on gender equality - the pay gap between men and women remains unacceptably high at 9.6% and seven companies in the FTSE 100 still do not have any women on their boards, prompting a warning from Vince Cable that "doing...

New research from Experian has good news for women in business - a study of 2.7m businesses in the UK has found that the number of female directors has increased by 240,000 since 2007. This represents an increase of 24 per cent - compared with a 15 per cent increase...

I imagine that most people reading this would agree that women are equally capable as men and that two people doing the same job, equally well, should be paid the same and be afforded the same opportunities.

And yet men still far outnumber women in leadership positions and the women...