2 December, 2020
Shareholder pressure gets women directors on US boards
Much research has argued the business case for gender diversity on boards. But it is pressure applied by big shareholders that seems to have progressed the cause of women in US boardrooms. New rese...
28 October, 2020
Executive gender pay gap diminishes over time—but doesn’t disappear
Gender pay gaps diminish over time as employers learn more about their newly appointed executives. The bad news is that improved knowledge does not remove the executive gender pay gap entirely. Tho...
28 May, 2020
How will Covid-19 impact diversity in UK business?
Most now agree that we will be entering a "new normal" as we move out of the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. For corporate UK, that may mean pivoted business models being made (semi) permanent a...
19 May, 2020
McKinsey diversity report highlights growing performance risk
There is a stark warning in the McKinsey report on diversity in business. Those companies that are the least gender diverse are 19% more likely to underperform on profitability. That’s up on the 15%...
9 November, 2018
The gender pay gap is closing – but the UK is behind
There has been progress—of a sort—in gender pay. At the executive end of the spectrum, the pay gap has squeezed in the UK to 12.5%, compared with 21.5% in Leathwaite’s previous Pay Index study. ...
3 August, 2018
MPs call for extension of gender pay gap reporting
The UK should extend the requirement for gender pay gap reporting to a broader range of companies, according to a report from an influential committee of MPs. Members of the House of Commons busine...
7 June, 2018
Female non-executive directors ‘expect less pay’ than males
Female non-executives are asking for much lower pay than their male counterparts, according to a new study. Research into the pay patterns of 6,000 senior operational staff and board members by Nor...
26 March, 2018
Companies warned of court action over gender pay gap reporting
Companies have been warned that they will face court action and potentially unlimited fines if they fail to comply with gender pay gap reporting requirements. The warning comes from the UK's Equali...
16 March, 2018
HSBC reveals gender pay gap of 60% but pledges to improve diversity
HSBC, one of the UK's most prominent financial institutions, has published an average gender pay gap of 60%. The bank's gender bonus gap is 84%. The bank admitted that it had fewer women in senior ...
13 March, 2018
